People get hyped about hyphens. Hyphens are tricky creatures that can't be summed up in a few words. They are sometimes overused, other times underused. They follow a few rules then haphazardly ignore ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

I have some good news for you. English — the language you love and depend on — has not one, not two, but three punctuation marks in the form of horizontal lines. Control yourself. They are — from ...

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 ...

This just in, courtesy of our Anglophile-eyed British colleague, program coordinator Jacqueline Davies: Hypens are history, at least for 16,000 words deemed hyphen unworthy. Here, word-for-word and ...

It's small. It's flat. It's black. And according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, its numbers are shrinking. Welcome to the world of the hyphen. Having been around since at least the birth of ...