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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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Hyphenating "Evolution"
Syllable is defined as "a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word." Basing on this definition, both the ways to divi …
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"Logged-in", "log-ined", "login-ed", "logined", "log-in-ed", "logged in"?
Log in is a verb, while login is a noun. Its Past Tense is logged in (I logged in yesterday). As an attributive phrase, it is logged-in (logged-in users).
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"One-Day Only Promotion" or "One-Day-Only Promotion"
It should be one-day-only promotion, for the reason you reported.
Have a look at some more genuine, authentic, certified, they-really-happened hyphos (a word we've made up on the model of typos): …
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Hyphenation in compound adjectives
Comma Sense—a fun-damental guide to punctuation reports the following text:
Often hyphens join two or more words that, taken together, form an adjective. The tin-of-ear among us write three day sh …
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"Email" or "e-mail"?
The New Oxford American Dictionary reports that the word is e-mail, but also email.
Wiktionary has a voice for e-mail where it's reported email as alternative spelling, and the following note:
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