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Possible Duplicate: To hyphenate or not? What is the proper way to spell "side dish"? Is it: "side dish" or "side-dish"? Also, Is it "ham-fried" or "ham fried"? Basically, when do you use ...

Back-end and front-end are common technical terms nowadays. Traditionally, they are written with a hyphen "back-end". Is there a rule in the English language that dictates this to be a correct way to ...

Does British English use a dash in between third-party, or is that for American English?

Possible Duplicates: To hyphenate or not? When is it necessary to use a hyphen in writing a compound word? When is it appropriate to use a hyphen? In the sentence "Portland is known to be one ...

Possible Duplicate: When is it necessary to use a hyphen in writing a compound word? To hyphenate or not? Which one is correct? The normal vector we mean is the inward-pointing normal. The normal ...

Possible Duplicate: To hyphenate or not? "Did you see this silly poll? It says that if I were a superhero, I would be Captain America." "Really? I don't know; I see you as more of a Thor-kind-of-...

Possible Duplicate: To hyphenate or not? When is it appropriate to use a hyphen? In the phrase It is simply a large door sized wall of fire. Should "door sized" be hyphenated to "door-sized"...

I do not know if it is correct to use a hyphen between the words wrap, and around, in describing a porch that wraps around a house.

Possible Duplicate: To hyphenate or not? Which is the proper one? I mainly use this term in computer terminology, like "grid multicolumn sorting".

Would the term in-cabin be hyphenated or not? As in, the dogs must ride in-cabin on the airplane.

Which usage of the prefix, "Meta" is correct, "Metaprogramming" or "Meta-programming"? Should the word be hyphenated or not?

Here's quite a good general answer of when and how to hyphenate. This makes me believe, that Turing-complete is correct, even though most people are not writing it this way. However, Turing-...

I'm eating clotted cream-covered scones. or I'm eating clotted-cream-covered scones. or I'm eating clotted cream covered scones. Formally, I thought they'd have to be clotted-cream scones, ...

If you're talking about a piece of software that does not need to be configured, would it be a "zero configuration app" or "zero-configuration app"?

The CLR under .NET is referred to as the "Common Language Runtime." It seems that the convention is "runtime" for a noun and "run-time" for the adjective. Is this correct or should it be "runtime" ...