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25 Does "non-" prefixed to a two word phrase permit another hyphen before the second word? If I want to refer to an entity which is defined as the negation of another entity by att
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Oct 1, 2015 · At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto. They're all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and p
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Oct 5, 2015 · "Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of somet
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Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin. Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen.
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Nov 22, 2019 · What is the correct way to apply the prefix "non-" to negate a (maybe dashed) compound adjective? Suppose that we want to negate a generic compound adjective " adje
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Jan 17, 2025 · The comments on the video suggested that both Black and non-Black people found it funny, but I'm unsure how widely acceptable this type of humor is. In real life, a
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Oct 28, 2018 · YES non zero Oxford English Dictionary ‘an extremely small but non-zero chance ’ Your question: Is this phrasing peculiar to American speakers or do British spe
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Jul 30, 2013 · I am writing a statistics text and I am not sure if I should either use "non-significant variables" or "not significant variables" (or anything else).
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What is correct in English, non-existing or nonexisting? Searching sources on Google doesn't help much as both variants are widely present there. Onelook Dictionary Search doesn't
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To record and summarize the discussion in the comments, while the OED mostly uses the hyphen, many other dictionaries don't, and the ngrams show higher non-hyphenated usage than hy