You must hyphenate some compound words such as merry-go-round. From LearnThat.org.
hyphenate these words and names. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A colloquialism -- "hyphenate" -- has latterly grown up to meet the need of. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
Rimes is what the industry calls a hyphenate, a writer and a producer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007] Reference
Now Rhymes is what the industry calls hyphenate, a writer and a producer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007] Reference
We try to hyphenate ourselves and divide ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007] Reference
Don't forget to hyphenate 21 through 99 when writing out. From Wordnik.com. [Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Like, we could each pick part of the name and hyphenate it. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
What if they want to hyphenate their children's names, too?. From Wordnik.com. [What's In A Name?] Reference
The girl is her own mutli-hyphenate in the Horror Industry. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Actress Michelle Tomlinson] Reference
Q: You're back to being a triple hyphenate on The Green Hornet. From Wordnik.com. [Zorianna Kit: My Conversation with Seth Rogen on Green Hornet] Reference
Four words and a hyphenate: ‘Aaron Boone walk-off home run.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Hellraiser Project: Hellraiser III (1992) and Hellraiser IV (1996)] Reference
Memo to Pastordan: No need to hyphenate "Unitarian Universalist.". From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: They attacked Thomas Jefferson's religion, too.] Reference
Plus married name is 12 letters long, so no way would I hyphenate. From Wordnik.com. [What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
You could defensibly hyphenate “Crazy-Ass” at all times, however. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Love For Lieberman] Reference
Would you hyphenate "wall-in," or am I imagaining my own grammer rules?. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 80] Reference
My husband Tom and I had decided to hyphenate our last names for our children. From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Losee: Baby Name Zeitgeist] Reference
"Sundance is really hitting me the right way," said the multi-hyphenate performer. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Kung: A "Hell" Of A Ride] Reference
It was my intention to hyphenate for a year and then fully switch over after that. From Wordnik.com. [What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Neither of us wanted to hyphenate a last name, so we went with the double middle name. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2002-07-01] Reference
A related one is whether or not to hyphenate email, though this seems less contentious. From Wordnik.com. [Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters] Reference
The real question is not “which is correct” but rather “why do we hyphenate words?”. From Wordnik.com. [Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Although you can hyphenate your name after marriage, you cannot pass it on to your children. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
"I hyphenate adverb-adjective pairings," who represents the spouses of Law and Order addicts?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
Followup: Note that the best stylists on the federal bench hyphenate their phrasal adjectives. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Use of Hyphens:] Reference
If you must hyphenate for him, Adams suggests that "Dallas Cowboy-American" or "TiVo-American.". From Wordnik.com. [Making Friends with Black People] Reference
My boss and mentor the late, great Bill Roberts used to say, "I don't hyphenate Republicanism.". From Wordnik.com. [Fred Karger: Where Have All the Moderates Gone?] Reference
Don't worry, I still make copies like a sober-motherfucking-bitch-whore, I just over-hyphenate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
The email reveals a new show-business hyphenate to go along with model-actress: chauffeur-comic. From Wordnik.com. [Magician, Joker, Star] Reference
If Scooter wants to, he can pull my last name from being his second middle name to hyphenate it. From Wordnik.com. [What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Into this challenging abyss comes talented multi-hyphenate Miguel, a singer-songwriter-producer. From Wordnik.com. [Marlynn Snyder: Miguel: 'Eclectric' R&B Upstart] Reference
What I came away with was: Either do it or dont but for goodness sakes, do NOT hyphenate the name. From Wordnik.com. [What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
What I came away with was : Either do it or dont but for goodness sakes, do NOT hyphenate the name. From Wordnik.com. [What's In A Name?] Reference
"The British do hyphenate things rather more than we do," shrugs Barbara Walraff, the grammar columnist for The Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [A Farewell to Hyphens] Reference
Romijn-Stamos (no word on whether she'll de-hyphenate) got the worst of it, as she was promoting her movie "The Punisher.". From Wordnik.com. [NEWSMAKERS] Reference
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