About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

In the world ofpeople-who-have-too-much-time-on-their-hands-and-really-should-leave-well-enough-alonecomes news today that the use of hyphens is being drasticallyreduced. This is supposedly being done ...

For a skinny little thing that is 1,500 years old, the hyphen gets around. These days, where the hyphen goes — and where it is turned away — amounts to punctuation as sociology. A hyphen quiz: (1) ...

Hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are frequently tested punctuation marks in government exam descriptive writing papers. Hyphens connect words, en dashes show ranges or relationships, and em dashes ...

LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice ...