Posted by: inclassnumbernine on: April 26, 2009
Hyphenated Words: A Guide
Certain words and phrases tend to evolve from separation to linkage. The trend in English is for frequently used word combinations to “grow together” from two words to one, sometimes passing through a hyphenated stage. The two-word phrase data base, for example, is now most commonly written as one word: database. (It [...]
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