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People tend to think that un- is solely a negative prefix. It is, of course, often used as such. And unlike most of the other negative prefixes it can be added to just about any adjective. If you want to make up a word to say that a picture is ‘not pretty’, the word has […]

There are two main uses of the hyphen: In writing compound words that would be ambiguous, hard to read or excessively long [no-smoking sign and black-cab driver] To indicate that a long word has been broken off at the end of a line (however, this should be avoided if possible) A minor use of the […]