Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Looking at ‘one word, two words or hyphenated’ issue

Health care, healthcare or health-care? Make up, makeup or make-up? Water ski, water-ski or waterski? Cell phone, cellphone or cell-phone? A lot of questions posed in this column elicit the answer: ...
BBC

Compound adjectives

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'language' Word stress English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'paper' Job suffixes English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'research' Contractions English in a ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: From open to hyphenated to closed, an evolving process

According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.
BBC

-ing and -ed adjectives

English in a Minute: 3 ways to use 'nice' Lexical sets English in a Minute: How to use the word 'during' Compound adjectives English in a Minute: 4 ways to use the word 'material' Word stress English ...
Daily Mail

Don't mix-up: The four easy rules to help determine where to place pesky hyphens

Even the sticklers who can spot a stray apostrophe a mile off may struggle over when to use a hyphen. But help is at hand for those who are unsure of where to put one. A study of more than 10,000 ...