https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/277210/no-not-and-non
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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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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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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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
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/462275/dash-after-the-prefix-non
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
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Nov 7, 2023 · in that example is the entire sentence and English, like many other non-tonal language, does have sentence-level tones. Another example is questions have a rising pi
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Oct 28, 2018 · A person who is accustomed to that framework may feel the need to use the phrase ‘non-zero probability’ or ‘non-zero chance’ to make it clear that whatever
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/237113/nonexistent-non-existent-or-non-existent
Apr 2, 2015 · 10 BrE: Non-existent used to be British spelling, but a couple of years back they did away with the hyphens of 16,000 hyphenated words. AmE: the answer above is the
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/628714/the-line-between-inappropriate-and-acceptable-use-of-the-n-word-in-black-and-non
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