Editor’s note: June Casagrande’s column on language and usage ran in the Daily Pilot until 2005. We’re pleased to welcome her back. Her column will run Saturdays. If you’ve ever watched a man eating ...

Hyphens [also known as dashes or minus signs] are simple on a typewriter. There is one type of hyphen. Need a longer dash, then type two or three hyphens. Microsoft Word has six forms of hyphens, not ...

A hyphen, as we all know, is a brief horizontal line employed to link two words together or to unite syllables within a word that have been split by the line break in a printed text. It indicates ...

A hyphen by any other name might not be the hyphen you need. Learn when and how to use four hyphen characters at your disposal. Software Installation Policy Five Methods to Insert a Checkmark Into ...

Don’t read this column. Really. It’s not like the other articles out there that impart knowledge. Instead, this one could leave you feeling like you know less than you did before you started reading.

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 ...

In reading an obituary in the June 6 print edition of LNP | LancasterOnline, I came across a word that was hyphenated due to space — “reg-ripped,” which would be pronounced/read, “Reg’ ripped.” I had ...

The topic of hyphens between words is a classic old time SEO question, something we've covered here many times. Recently, John Mueller of Google was asked about how Google treats words with ...