First posted December 2014 . . . but from what I keep seeing, it’s worth reminding everyone who uses the AMERICAN grammar system of the basic uses for hyphens! ************** I ask because using hyphens seems to have become a…
Revisiting Hyphens
There are a lot of punctuation marks that are misunderstood and mishandled — think of the semicolon — but none so truly lacking in understanding as the hyphen. It’s such a small mark that its importance can be overlooked. And although…
Who’s Hoarding All The Hyphens?
I am rerunning this particular post (first published December 2014) because over the last ten months I have tripled my readership, and I seriously doubt anyone has gone back to the beginning of what I have written to see what…
It’s Back-to-School Time!
Ah, school. Were you one of those eager beavers who was excited to go back and see friends you hadn’t seen since you got out of school last May or June? Or were you one of those who hated the…