Archive for September 20th, 2007
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Hyphens!
For me hyphens have always been a kind of curious wonder. Putting in
hyphens is fun, but worrying afterwards about whether or not it was
correctly used is not fun.
One common use of hyphens is to separate words that won’t fit at the
end of a line. They should be placed in places that break up the word in
roughly equal parts, and between syllables, such as ”encour-aging”,
and not ”enc-ouraging.” This post, however, is going to be about one
particular use of hyphens that I never can remember.
Hypens are sometimes used to make two words read like one word.
This site likens them to trailer hitches, making the two one. Hyphens
are used to connect words that make up an adjective describing nouns,
such as:
coffee-brown colored suit
well-known celebrity
nineteenth-century play
strawberry-smoothie flavoring
red-apple [...]
