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Those to me seem like a perfectly acceptable use of a hyphen.
by swalsh 12y ago
Those to me seem like a perfectly acceptable use of a hyphen.
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoMotorhome is not hyphenated.
- Pxtl 12y agoI blame spellcheck. In many cases the most legible solution is a German-style mashingwordstogether, but spellcheck systems highlight those so people hyphenate instead. For example, spellcheck has a curly red underline right now. But would it really look better as spell-check?
- maemilius 12y agoI think it would be more grammatically correct to call it "spell-check" or even "spell check" instead of "spellcheck".
- aoloe 12y agoSpelling check... you aren't checking spells. At least, this is what I've been told by a very picky guy...
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoSpell check, no hyphen. Easiest way to figure out what needs a hyphen IMO is to google it. Otherwise, just try to avoid hyphenated words, a simpler word will often do.
- talideon 12y ago'red-head scarf' certainly isn't an acceptable use of a hyphen, unless the scarf is woven from the hair of a red-haired person.
- scarygliders 12y agoI read that as "A scarf that red haired people wear"
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y agoThat would be a legitimate way to parse that phrase, but it's far more likely that this is a typo for "red head-scarf". There isn't a particular kind of scarf worn by red-heads, AFIAK.
- kefka 12y agoAdmittedly, I thought of the sexual double-entendre. Muff can make a nice scarf... But I digress.