There’s nothing wrong with hyphenating “multi-cultural.” There’s nothing wrong with not hyphenating “multicultural.” There’s nothing wrong with doing it both ways in a single document. But it’s very ...

Last night, while reading Craig Mod’s excellent article, Subcompact Publishing, I noticed something that only type-obsessed nerds probably notice: some really good-looking hyphenation. A quick ...

Hyphen defenders (or is it hyphen-defenders?), take heart. The Associated Press is reversing some of its March 2019 guidance on how we use the wedding band of the punctuation world. “Thanks to input ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about why people don’t use hyphens with domains and if there was something to be concerned about that they were missing. I’ve been working online ...

Hyphens are a pain. People use them so differently that it’s impossible for anyone to use them with complete confidence. As they say, no two editors hyphenate exactly alike, which is why I have seen ...

Back in July, Matt Cutts made the announcement at the WordPress Wordcamp that underscores are now treated as spaces in Google. Blogs, webmaster communities, and SEO professionals rejoiced – but why ...

The amount of hyphens in the title of a research paper has a direct effect on the number of times it's cited. The more hyphens in the title, the less likely it was to be cited. Our fears were wrong – ...

Law review style is to write number ranges using en dashes (–) rather than hyphens (-). I'd prefer if that wasn't the norm, but it is; and for the Journal of Free Speech Law, we decided to stick with ...

Narrator: Oh no Brain! They're not the same thing at all. In fact they're really quite different. A hyphen is used to join two words together that describe a noun. They help us avoid confusion when ...

“IF YOU take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad,” warns the style manual of the Oxford University Press. This maxim is quoted in The Economist’s own style book, which goes on about the ...

Narrator: Oh no Brain! They're not the same thing at all. In fact they're really quite different. A hyphen is used to join two words together that describe a noun. They help us avoid confusion when ...