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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?
Nobody has ever passed a law or established a multinational treaty decreeing what is or isn’t a letter. But there is an essentially universal convention that English has exactly 26 letters, and those …
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Do we need to hyphenate the compund noun if it is given as an object complement?
A common bit of style guidance is to hyphenate them when they are used attributively. Thus entertainment-oriented programming but programming that’s entertainment oriented.
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