Timeline for Hyphens in verb construction containing prefix such as "re"
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| May 30, 2018 at 2:27 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Possible duplicate of Should the prefix "re" be added to a word with or without a hyphen? | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 19:31 | history | protected | RegDwigнt | ||
| Nov 19, 2012 at 16:33 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'm not sure how your first question can be considered answerable. Who is to decide on which dictionaries qualify as authoritative? Dictionaries and style guides certainly do not all agree. For instance, the MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY Style guide demands re-apply and re-admission (and, one can only assume, re-admit), while Collins demands reapply and readmit. I won't check for purely dictionary differences, but am sure they exist. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 15:47 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Oct 18, 2012 at 23:08 | vote | accept | allquixotic | ||
| Oct 5, 2012 at 17:47 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 17:41 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | Related: When is it necessary to use a hyphen in writing a compound word? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 17:14 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 17:07 | comment | added | user19148 | User who is supposed to possess a fuller comprehension of this question could clarify your doubts, I'm not native of English language. However the dictionary I cited reads what I reported in previsious comments. But, albeit I'm not a native, I think that the two different senses with and without the hyphen should be self-explanatory for some of these words. For another instance, think of "re-search" ("re-searched"). How can anybody confuse this word with "research" ("researched")? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:59 | comment | added | allquixotic | I have actually seen "resigned" used in publications to mean what you would write as "re-signed"; that is, a person was "signed" (to belong to an organization) again. Worse, it's almost an antonym of the alternative meaning of "resigned" where the 's' is pronounced like a 'z'; that's where they quit the organization! So if "re-signed" is correct, I'm very confused, given the existence of words like "retest" and "reopen" in the dictionary. | |
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| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:52 | comment | added | user19148 | In my dictionary (New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors) if an hyphen exist in "re-" case, it means "again": for instance, you have "sign" and "re-sign" ("sign again"), but "resign" means "voluntarily leave a job". And you have "re-serve" ("serve again") or "re-close" ("close again") and so on. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:49 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:44 | history | asked | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |