Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

Health care, healthcare or health-care? Make up, makeup or make-up? Water ski, water-ski or waterski? Cell phone, cellphone or cell-phone? A lot of questions posed in this column elicit the answer: ...

Hyphens are only used to combine certain words together. They are not strong enough to set off phrases or words from a sentence. Use hyphens in the following situations: Use in compound numbers and ...

English in a Minute: Verbs that go with 'resource' Word stress English in a Minute: Phrases with 'look' Job suffixes English in a Minute: Phrases with 'home' Contractions English in a Minute: Phrases ...

According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.

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Some words are said together so often that many people think they're a single word—but they're not. Or at least not all of the time. The confusing business of compound words, explained. If you spend a ...