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Three short lines: the hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash

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Two words or one word or a hyphenated word?

Health care or healthcare? Policy makers or policymakers? Web site or website? The Oxford Dictionary of English (3rd edition, 2010) makes each a single word. Copy editors struggle with such trivial...

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Hyphens in compass points or directions

Whether to put a hyphen in names of compass points or directions – south-eastern or southeastern, north-west or northwest, and so on – is a matter in which the differences between British and American...

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