From a technical standpoint, a hyphen is part of your site address: adding a hyphen will thus change the address. Using a hyphenated address can create some practical problems. It may also hurt your ...

When you’re writing by hand, a hyphen and a dash can look pretty similar, although the meanings differ. You might throw in a hyphen to link two well-known words or add a dash—for impact, of course.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

When it comes to proper punctuation, choosing between an exclamation point and a question mark is child’s play. The semicolon-vs.-colon decision is a bit tougher to make. But even that can’t compare ...

Hyphens are a pain. People use them so differently that it’s impossible for anyone to use them with complete confidence. As they say, no two editors hyphenate exactly alike, which is why I have seen ...

The same State Board of Education member who called critical thinking instruction “gobbledygook” years ago now is warning against another insidious foe: The hyphen. Yes, that little slip of a ...

For %22The Blueprint 3%22 and his %22Decoded%22 memoir%2C he went by Jay-Z The hyphen was gone by 2011%27s %22Watch the Throne%22 A %22Billboard%22 editor tweeted ...

It seems we're always declaring our great fondness for this punctuation mark or that one. Oh, the whimsical nature of the semicolon and how smart she makes us feel. Oh, the gorgeous curves of the ...