Comments on: Hyphens: Over-used or Under-used?

By: dr mony

dr mony — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:42:35 +0000

i think hyphens overuse in our content is not good practice and i often escape of it

By: BloggerDaily

BloggerDaily — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:04:07 +0000

Gosh. Sometimes I overuse it.

By: Indian Art

Indian Art — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:50:19 +0000

Thanks dear! That was very informative!

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Two thirds of the community voted.

This is a such a distinct but perhaps often ignored difference between when to use and not to use a hyphen. Some people follow their instincts for where to put a hyphen. for example if there are two parts of the word e.g. twenty-five, we use a hyphen, but we dont use it when we write e.g. hedgehog.

Thanks for clearing up a lot of doubts.

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By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:58 +0000

Thanks for this one, Patty. Great presentation. I'm a commi-ted hyphen user (rather than a hyphen-user), and I have to admit, sometimes I'm guessing. I received a reader comment on a guest blog recently, and the only thing he wanted to focus on was my use (correct, in that case) of the humble hyphen. I have to admit, sometimes I'm not sure, but I love that a hyhpen can, in effect, interrupt a sentence for a clarifying thought or a side comment.

In that case, I'm told, there is a difference between a hyphen and a dash. To make a dash into a hyphen, simply use double dashes — it looks like this — and you get the same effect. If there's a true hyphen somewhere on my mysterious keyboard, I'm not sure where it resides.

Thanks again for a great post.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:57:58 +0000

Thanks for this easy to follow lesson. This is definitely an area of punctuation I struggle with.

By: S.K Sharma

S.K Sharma — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:55:33 +0000

This is the article which is purely related with grammar.Sometime don't use hyphens an other rules of grammar.

By: Diesel Engine Perfor

Diesel Engine Perfor — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:43:09 +0000

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By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:15:25 +0000

I use hyphens in the urls for my runway fashion blog runwayrundown.com . It's either hyphens or underscores right?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:05:29 +0000

I wonder how much of the problem is coming from software as well. When I see some of the suggestions Microsoft Word throws at me, I wonder… who's right?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:41:59 +0000

I've always thought it looked really ugly to hyphenate on line breaks, so I always avoid it unless I have to use it.