Hyphenaters used to be fearless. Bad to the bone. Unflinching in the face of multi-word adjectives that required two or even three hyphens. An editor would see the terms “anti” and “social” and “media ...

Language has rules. For people who aren’t too confident in their writing and grammar skills, the rules can be very useful, helping determine things like which verb form to use and where to put a ...

Hyphens [also known as dashes or minus signs] are simple on a typewriter. There is one type of hyphen. Need a longer dash, then type two or three hyphens. Microsoft Word has six forms of hyphens, not ...