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Hi,I think Mr. M said something to the effect that when two or more nouns are used as a compound noun, there should be no need to hyphenate.Case I use to ask a question in a previous post:A pencil that can also be used as an eraser:I want to have a pencil eraser (or pencil-eraser??).For this, I...

Hi,What's the difference between 'sweet food' and 'sweet tasting food'? I'd write it as 'sweet-tasting'. ie with a hyphen.Not much.Possibly some food might taste sweet but not actually have a lot of sugar content? I don't know a lot about nutrition and food...

Kooyeen wrote:And I'm 100% sure that if I know it, I definitely don't know it can be spelled two ways. Kooyeen, you have (at least) one of these too! I guess we should focus on that. We said it's not a difference between BrE and AmE, so not "ou" spellings. Tanit asked if it's a hyphen that makes...

Yankee wrote:Kooyeen, you should be able to get this one. I'm 100% sure you've seen the word recently. And I'm 100% sure that if I know it, I definitely don't know it can be spelled two ways. I guess we should focus on that. We said it's not a difference between BrE and AmE, so not "ou"...

I did not read your remarks before listening, so I listened "cold". Raincoat. She's supposed to say "Oh, shoot, not again. I should've worn a raincoat". I can't hear that, I don't hear the "ve". It just seems "I should wear a raincoat". All I got was I sh..d..na raincoat, so you're...

Hello, which of the two words is generally used to spell e-mail-addresses or domain names? What's the difference between them? Thanks in advance! Sabine

Hello, do you usually say "hyphen" or "dash" when spelling e-mail-addresses? What's the difference between the two words? Thanks in advance! Sabine

And in case anyone is wondering about the difference between the two dashes... The n-dash is the shorter one, so called because it used to be the same width as an "n" when there was nonproportional type The m-dash is the longer one. I bet you can guess why is was called that. The n-dash is...

1)What's the difference between worse & worst. 2) When to join to words using hyphen. eg. career-oriented. Thanks in advance.

Sorry to be so long, but I have been looking for a good comprehensive internet source on dashes; all the information seems to be in bits and pieces, and some of it is quite contradictory. Here is a good excerpt, however, from the Get it Write website: 'A number of you have written to ask us to...