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A hyphen is a symbol used to join two words or two syllables of a single word together. It is not to be confused with dashes or the minus symbol, as these are all longer than the hyphen and serve different purposes in language.
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Can a hyphen be a "letter" in some words?
It depends on what you mean by ‘letter’.
But that gets tricky. Is ‘ç’ a letter in English? How about ‘ï’ or ‘ô’ or ‘ü’? They’re found in some English words (or at least, they used to be, English ha …
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