scottwallick.com » hyphens http://scottwallick.com An editor making more mistakes than corrections Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:26:17 +0000 en hourly 1 Less hyphens and less confusion http://scottwallick.com/blog/2007/10/less-hyphens-and-less-confusion/ http://scottwallick.com/blog/2007/10/less-hyphens-and-less-confusion/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:47:33 +0000 Scott http://scottwallick.com/blog/2007/10/less-hyphens-and-less-confusion/ The precedent-following Oxford University Press has removed hyphens from about 16,000 words in their upcoming Shorter OED revision, according to Simon Rabinovitch of Reuters.

Over-hyphenation is a problem. As is under-hyphenation. While ice-cream easily becomes ice cream, compound adjectives should remain “precedent-following.”

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