How To Use Hyphen In A Sentence
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There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word.
Hyphens.
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To be honest, we might be dealing with a hyphen situation here.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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Yes, Ashling is one of those people who eschew normal grammar rules and use only hyphens to get their message across.
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They've registered the name with a hyphen between the words but I own the domain as one word which is their preference.
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Periods and hyphens indicate, respectively, base identities and deletions.
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Two or more one-syllable words may be joined together, however, usually connected by a hyphen, to form a compound word.
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We both really wanted to have the same last name, however, so we did a double last name, unhyphenated.
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I think I will have a hyphenated name, she thought, when I get married.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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We did a computer search for all the hyphenated words.
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I do not want to hyphenate my name, because it would be too long.
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Here and elsewhere, inconsistent hyphenization of “Salt (-) cellar” is unchanged.
Early English Meals and Manners
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`Any special instructions regarding the woman with the hyphenated name?
MURDER IN E MINOR
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Make sure you include a hyphen or underscore between each word.
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Until last week when his divorce was completed, Klingler's last name hyphenated to include Desai's.
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So, predictably, healthcare reform dominated the Sunday shows (by the way, you wouldn't believe the length of the discussions in my office surrounding the compounding, hyphenation or phrasing of the term "health care"; official Federal rules don't exist, so it was left to Bob to make policy).
R_urell: So, predictably, healthcare reform domin
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The principle of using a hyphen to avoid confusion explains why no hyphen is required with very and with -ly adverbs.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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In my experience, all women with hyphenated names are cows by default, but Emma-Kate was just terrible.
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The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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Yet time was, when the innocent word "zounds" was written with the same culpatory dashes and hyphens as the "damns that have had their day;" and "pigs," we suppose, were exenterated in like manner: suggested only by their heads and tails, -- the first letter and the last.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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Having worked a long, long time ago in the desktop publishing business with one of the cheaper programs that was on the market at the time (Ventura Publisher long before it was acquired by Corel), that type of hyphen is put in as a conditional hyphen, not a hard hyphen.
‘Kraut-hammer.’ Very droll, Newsweek. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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Her name is hyphenated and her britches are big so she's announced her candidacy for mayor of St. Mary's Point, Minnesota.
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As teenagers, my sister and I eventually discovered the truth when we stumbled across our birth certificates and saw that blasted hyphenation.
What The Hell Nationality Are You?
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Topics covered are: fonts, size, color, leading, kerning, tracking, paragraph spacing and alignment, hyphenation and composition, glyphs and special characters.
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Consider hyphenating search terms, as this is likely an area competitors are unlikely to venture.
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Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks.
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Their top spark was a rangy, well-knit Ulsterman with sandy whiskers and a soft-spoken honeycomb voice; his name, he informed me, was Grattan Nugent-Hare, "with the hyphen, sir which is a bit of a pose, don't ye know, but I'm attached to it.
Isabelle
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Only one-word unhyphenated whole numbers are permitted, and no number may be repeated.
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These aren't imported words with genuine umlauts, but retrospective accents denoting a junked hyphen as in microorganisms or coordinated.
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I was about to take my colleague to task for failing to hyphenate ‘best known’ when using it as a compound adjective.
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And, if I understand correctly, prenominal phrasal adjectives are hyphenated–making them one word.
How important is college? - 22 Words
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For example, if you like the looks of hyphens separating datestamp, locators and descriptors, then do it that way every time.
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hyphenates" and more "commas", adhering to and adopting identities with increasing ease.
Www.MountainRunner.us
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Don’t use a hyphen between adverbs ending in -ly and the words they modify: a rapidly rising rate.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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This, on the other hand, I read because I wanted to see how it came out, not because I spell anal-retentive with the hyphen in.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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Her CV bore her maiden name … Smythe, minus the hyphened Enright.
Purchased By The Billionaire
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It would be nice to think this tip-off enabled him to avoid this fate but I fear his life was lost along with those missing hyphens.
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It has exacerbated many existing weaknesses (rise of e-tailing, rise of e-books, creeping omnipotence of e's and hyphens), and has forced publishers to examine their business models.
Nathan Bransford: Publishing's Winner's Curse
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I have to say that objecting to "Hyphenated Americanism" is not necessarily racist, but I also have to say that it is an easy veil to throw over xenophobia or mysoxeny.
Archive 2007-03-01
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The word "outflowing" is mostly spelled without a hyphen, so I deleted the hyphens from all instances of this word.
The Complex Vision
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He is a bonafide player - a multiple hyphenate who has done virtually everything that can be done in front of or behind a camera.
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According to Jacoby, the hyphen in service-learning is symbolically representative of this symbiotic relationship.
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I can be proud of my ancestry without hyphenating my Americanism.
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That's about when hyphenation was seized upon as a solution to surname patriarchy.
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To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '.
RESCUING ROSE
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To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '.
RESCUING ROSE
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Inconsistencies include: capitalization of “Fig.” or “fig.” hyphenization of words such as “oxy-muriatic”
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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Small deletions are indicated by hyphens and large deletions by triangles.
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You know, that pesky hyphen is just sooooo hard to get in there.
The ‘This has to be a Photoshop.’ Sunday Open Thread. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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This Ms. Davis doesn't think hyphenated could be a pot hunter.
A THIEF OF TIME
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As you type, WordPerfect will automatically insert a soft hyphen where appropriate, without stopping for you to position the cursor.
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They do not have money to waste on multiple-hyphenated coffee drinks - double-top, no-foam, non-fat lattes and the like.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet time was, when the innocent word "zounds" was written with the same culpatory dashes and hyphens as the "damns that have had their day;" and "pigs," we suppose, were exenterated in like manner: suggested only by their heads and tails, -- the first letter and the last.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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Give her a name hyphen this summer so that she becomes Veneta-Sue, and she'll stick to her declared major of Animal Husbandry.
The Existentialist Starter Kit
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For the iPad they will make a new version that substitutes hyphens for the dieresis.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : New Yorker attempts workaround on dieresis
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Where the bloody blazes is the dang hyphen betwixt “Zero” and “Tolerance” in your stupid title, you daffy bird?!?
2009 January « Motivated Grammar
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There's probably no more irksome character than the humble hyphen, and though I'd love to develop a devil-may-care attitude toward it (got the bugger right that time, I reckon!), my newest coinage is hyphenhate, so you can guess just how I feel after 39713 of them and still counting.
Archive 2009-04-01
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I agree about the minotaurs and think under-meated should be hyphenated like Rodham-Clinton should be hypenated.
Random Typing
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What's the consensus on hyphenated words for 25 words or less?
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A similarly important issue is the hyphenation of ‘Asian-Canadian’ within the headline and text of the review.
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To be honest, we might be dealing with a hyphen situation here.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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Imagine, Kierkegaard says, that you saw nothing but a word followed by a hyphen.
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Outside the University in Mumbai is the greeting ‘wel-come’, with the two elements separated by a hyphen.
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That is, hyphenate when words in a phrase modify another work, not when they don’t.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Use of Hyphens:
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Search engines see hyphens and commas as spaces, which is why they would count that example as the same word next to itself.
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We had to decide whether words like "asswipe" or "shitfaced" should be included, or does the program only know the hyphenated versions.
Boing Boing
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Natural product discovery from endophytic fungi based on hyphenated
Naturejobs - All Jobs
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All Velorian last names are supposed to be hyphenated.
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Between it and the tumbler was a hyphen of wet blisters: droplets of spilled booze.
Over the Edge
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We undo the Ctrl-J with Ctrl-Shift - (that's Control-Shift-Hyphen) and type in the semicolon.
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I myself am not above such occasional ballyhoo, most recently biting the hook hard on recently fashionable hyphenated mergers of electronics and rock, be it dance-punk or lap-pop or lance-ponk.
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The principle of using a hyphen to avoid confusion explains why no hyphen is required with very and with -ly adverbs.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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The difference is that a trema disappears when the word is hyphenated at that specific letter, while an umlaut would stay.
Netvouz - new bookmarks
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Americanism, untainted and unvarnished by a hyphen or an "ism," especially when the word pacific precedes the latter.
The Story of The American Legion
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George Crabb in 1823 defined co-ordinates now dropping its hyphen as “a term applied to the absciss and ordinates when taken in connexion,” later better known as the magnitudes that determine the position of a point; geographers and navigators still later used coordinates to describe the use of longitude and latitude in locating a spot on the globe.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Immediately after the contest was announced experts snapped up hyphenated domain names and began tweaking their text.
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Do America's students not know how to correctly cite internet references containing hyphens?
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He was coal and wool joined by a stately hyphen and ennobled by five coronets.
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Don’t hyphenate unless the base word begins with an i: maxiskirt, maxi-intelligence.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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Wisconsin-hyphened college, then you know he likes balanced scoring four, five, six guys in double figures.
USATODAY.com - Four games, four stories
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[personal communication, January 9, 1983] that some years ago the family thought of hyphenating the two parts of the name Sholem Aleichem to prevent this very confusion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
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The New York Times disagrees; the bank, or infixed subhead, of its Hong Kong article read, “The Hang Seng sets the scene for a global selloff,” unhyphenated.
No Uncertain Terms
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As a rule, romance is best left unhyphenated by other emotions or feelings.
Times, Sunday Times
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that justifying online text would yield excessive hyphenation.
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The only quibble I have with the grammar of that prose is the use of a hyphen followed by a semi-colon in the final sentence.
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Now I might become what the Americans call a hyphenate - a writer-director.
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Thither he returned in the spring of 1876, and the Evening Journal, being by this time consolidated with the Times, he became an editorial writer and paragrapher on the hyphenated publication.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
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A walking stick is a stick that walks, and the phrase might occur as a metaphorical description of a stiffly behaved person: a walking-stick or walkingstick is a stick for walking; the difference may sometimes be important, and consistency may be held to require that all compounds with gerunds should be hyphened or made into single words.
Hyphens.
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She is insisting on her last name: no hyphenation.
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Do you mean that yummy-y‘s hyphen is dishonest because you don’t think broccoli is yummy?
Link love: language (4)
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But the Department of Justice was so thoroughly convinced of the far-reaching character of German plots that President Wilson, in his annual message of December, 1915, frankly denounced the "hyphenates" who lent their aid to such intrigues.
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
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For those who care: in one of last week's postings, I had linked loads and loads of words together with hyphens instead of spaces.
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Hyphenated words, symbols, numbers, and abbreviations were counted as one word.
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Hey, since we are rapidly becoming the minority, of course we will use the hyphenation.
Has Clinton been sidelined?
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A hyphen is an acceptable alternative to a comma.
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It belongs to the first half of the fourth century, and is said by Marucchi (II, 343) to be almost the latest catacomb fresco of Our Lady, a kind of hyphen between the primitive frescoes and the early Byzantine Madonnas; it seems at the same time a very early evidence of the adorational use of paintings in public worship (Le
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The use of the hyphen to divide words at the ends of lines of text dates from the 14c, and evolved from a marginal tick or check mark used to show that the final word of a line was not complete.
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Therefore, neat and concise hyphenated compound terms will be used throughout to help disentangle his various roles and avoid needless repetition and reader boredom.
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The templates had been designed to accommodate long, hyphenated last names as well as multiple professional accreditation initials.
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As far as TeX or any typesetting is concerned, one of the most noticeable language-specific problems is incorrect hyphenation, that is, breaking words at sensible places.
Netvouz - new bookmarks
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Counting only letters, and ignoring characters like spaces and commas and hyphens, you can see the proof in the definition.
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On the other hand, the word italicized in the next example may well puzzle a good many readers without its hyphen; it has quite lately come into use in this country ( 'Chiefly U. S.' says the Oxford Dictionary, which prints the hyphen, whereas Webster does not), and is in danger of being taken at first sight for a foreign word and pronounced in strange ways.
Hyphens.
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Hyphens are reinstated if the - ly adverb is part of a longer compound: formally-agreed-upon format not-so-environmentally-friendly products
Hyphens in phrasal adjectives
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It's confusing enough to grow up in a place like America, a country without definitive culture, except for ranch dressing and reality TV, but it's even worse to grow up half one thing, half another, christened a hyphenation of names without connection to either owner, raised by “parents” who redefine suburban bickering.
What The Hell Nationality Are You?
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A well chosen hyphenated domain name can be just as effective as a single word domain name.
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She's a dictionary fan who even coined the joke, "Does 'anal-retentive' have a hyphen?" back in 1990.
Archive 2009-04-01
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There are intrinsic differences between English and Romance languages that militate against complete standardisation of the English language; the formation of compound nouns and the associated use of hyphens is a case in point; so is the formation of phrasal verbs, which come, change, and go away as fashion demands.
Two letters
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She travels to Chennai as regularly as Spivak to Kolkata and, like many of these global scholars, inhabits something inclusive and unhyphenated that could be called EastWest.
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The Hebrew hyphen character, or maqaf, appears at the top, not in mid-line.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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But I posit that the hyphenation of his name made him unique enough to be easily discoverable even before he had hit songs.
The Dream of Being Discoverable - Anil Dash
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Yet time was, when the innocent word "zounds" was written with the same culpatory dashes and hyphens as the "damns that have had their day;" and "pigs," we suppose, were exenterated in like manner: suggested only by their heads and tails, -- the first letter and the last.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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It is in that state of hyphenation that we live our daily lives, comfortable in our dual skins.
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Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed.
The Simpkins Plot
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Should your domain be one single word or should the words be separated by hyphens?
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It is a series of numbers, hyphens, naughts, strokes, and zeds.
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Not only can a single word in ordinary circumstances be thus treated as an adjective, but the same is true of a phrase; the words of the phrase, however, must then be hyphened, or ambiguity may result.
Hyphens.
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Differences in amino acid sequence are shown; hyphens identify missing amino acids, and dots indicate identical amino acids
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The import filter offered to replace the hyphen with an underscore character, and other than the name change, the file read perfectly.
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We may thrill with dread at the aggressive hyphenate, but this tame flabbiness is accepted as Americanization.
Trans-national America
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Hyphen added to 'sawbuck' to ensure consistency with other uses
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
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Some words are ambiguously hyphenated in the original, for example compare "birdlike" (page 40) with "bird-like" (page 383).
The Guests Of Hercules
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In addition to my overuse of hyphenated phrases, this reminds me of the Empire State Building's own mini-me, aka the RJ Reynolds headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Even if I'm talking to other adults, I will respond with things like "gaffle" and "butt hurt" sorry I don't know if a hyphen goes in or not.
"Thick as mince and a clatty bastit"
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In general, though, the Oxford hepcats detect a turning away from the hyphen.
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I like how this started out as a thoughtful deliberation of hyphenation usage, then degraded into Three Stooges-like antics complete with head konk, and then an Apatow-yell (similar to a rebel yell but funnier and far more intelligent).
Theater Hopper - July 30: I Probably Shouldn't Be Critiquing Grammar « FirstShowing.net
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I turn off nearly every automatic feature there is, from conversion of hyphens to appropriate dashes, to AutoCorrect and AutoFormat.
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I have purposefully hyphenated the word subhuman in this article to add emphasis to the root of the word which is human because that root word is very important!
Political Pistachio
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When one syllable of a word ends with a vowel, and the next syllable begins with the same vowel, the hyphen is placed between the syllables to indicate that the two vowels do not form a diphthong, that is, that they should not be pronounced together.
"Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
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Sometimes, but not always, Heidegger hyphenates the word, ‘Da-sein’, to stress the sense of ‘being here’.
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We unhyphenated libertarians look forward to the discussion.
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Minor differences in spelling and hyphenization are not noted.
The Orbis Pictus
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Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks.
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Anyone who likes light-hearted, heavy hitting, unhyphenated rock and roll would do well to add People Get Ready to their collection.
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On his appointment, he altered his surname by hyphenating a family name to avoid misunderstanding.
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A hyphen suggests an amalgamation of the two disciplines; a slash keeps them separate, poetry staying on its side of the fence and criticism on its side.
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What about giving consideration to hyphenating both names?
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She's the daughter of a rich white businessman with a hyphenated surname.
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No hyphens at line divisions in this edition are authorial, except for seventy-three instances in which an authorial hyphen happens to occur ambiguously at a line division in this edition; those are identified, for convenience, in the appended ‘End-of Line Word-Division’, which also gives a list of the sixty-six instances of end-of-line word-division in the copy-text that could possibly affect hyphenation.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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The ragpicker's basket is the hyphen between rags and paper, and the ragpicker is the hyphen between the beggar and the philosopher.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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Pardon the hyphen in wind-er, without it, on the page, it becomes winder which is a completely different word.
A Profound Experience | clusterflock
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The use of the hyphen to divide words at the ends of lines of text dates from the 14 century.
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In l. 10 I have substituted handle for reave of MS.: see note on reave, p. 101; and in l. 13, have hyphened God made flesh.
Notes
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End-of-line word-division in the copy-text that could affect hyphenation in this edition.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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But as a young man he decided to acquire a double-barrelled name by hyphenating his middle name, Grant, to the Ferris.
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There is a large constituency of Americans who reject the hyphenation entirely.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo?
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Page 109: The term selfsame occurs only once without a hyphen.
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem
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I have noticed a lot of what seems to me to be over-hyphenization in modern English.
Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
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_The hyphen in initial words indicates the composition of the words_.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
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To be honest, we might be dealing with a hyphen situation here.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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An '"hyphens" read the news an' smoke, a-settin 'on the porch --
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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The crusade against 'hyphenates' will only inflame the partial patriotism of trans-nationals, and cause them to assert their European traditions in strident and unwholesome ways.
Trans-national America
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Counting only letters, and ignoring characters like spaces and commas and hyphens, you can see the proof in the definition.
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Said hyphenate's name is Josh, and his film, Winter Solstice, is about the millionth variation on a tried-and-true template.
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Hyphenation by decomposition of compound words wordaxeis a Python library (formerly known as deco-cow) which provides Python programs with the ability to automatically hyphenate words using an algorithm which is based on decomposition of compound words into base words, and is named DCWHyphenator in the code.
Softpedia - Windows - All
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When everything is color coded or hyphenated how can we ever get past it?
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If she hyphenates her last name or that of their kids .. it's going to one awesome spelling bee for all the customer service people
Orszag engaged to ABC News reporter
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A hyphen is the dash in the middle of, for example: part-time.
No mames!
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Don’t use a hyphen between adverbs ending in -ly and the words they modify: a rapidly rising rate.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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However, the hyphenates are a separate and special branch of the species.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
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The term penny-wise is hyphenated because it is a compound modifier in which wise means smart, rather than a use of the suffix -wise.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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On my credit card, I have the hyphenated version and on my passport, the two names because here in France, even if you take you husband’s name, you birthname is still mentionned on official papers.
What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother
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As the author concludes, ‘Brazil remains a country where hyphenated ethnicity is predominant yet unacknowledged.’
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Enlightened Sky Atlantic is that most anxiety-inducing of hyphenates, the comedy-drama.
Cable girl: Enlightened
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Hyphens and adverbs partake of this concatenation of the style that ends up creating hypallages.
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A number and its unit of measurement are hyphenated if they modify another noun.
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A new book from the crafter of the hyphenated superbole: "He sleep-otters under small black stones..." and later "illness's knapped letter is ribboned" in the "water-earth, the gonging.
Archive 2008-03-01
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However, the hyphenated identity of African-American came into widespread use during the 1980s, and it encapsulates graphically, on the page and in the mind, the “twoness” that Du Bois describes.
W. E. B. Du Bois, Carol Swain, and African-American Duality
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In the early days of search engines, one could not search using special characters such as hyphens, commas, apostrophes, etc.
Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
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Adverbs that practically form compounds with verbs, but stand after, and not necessarily next after them, need not be hyphened unless they would be ambiguous in the particular sentence if they were not hyphened.
Hyphens.
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He also says that, since the publishers have been so niggardly with the advance, they have been generous with their punctuation, adding lots of commas and a few hyphens.
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As you get to the later levels, the words and phrases become much trickier, complete with hyphens and other special characters.
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Follow extra- with a hyphen when it is part of a compound modifier describing a condition beyond the usual size, extent or degree:
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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It is a series of numbers, hyphens, naughts, strokes, and zeds.
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The dancing fairy is Ariel, who nowadays would have a hyphenated last name & fit in here perfectly.
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The epitome of the multihyphenate, she is a polo player, an interior designer, a fashion designer and a brand brainstormer.
Meredith Barnett: Sara Rotman, Accessories Entrepreneur and Branding Genius, Shares Her New Year's Resolutions
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Incidentally, the hyphen in Goose-Pimples is a solecism, but we'll never know whether it was written by Leigh or improvised by his cast.
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What I hear is that people want to create a sense of union, and having that hyphenated name complicates things," she said.
Www.startribune.com
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[Updated 4/24/08: I've posted some counter-arguments to claims that e-mail must be hyphenated, in case you happen upon somebody who can't be dissuaded from the position that this does matter.]
Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
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The big man parleyed the advent of a new hyphenated Tory into a week off.
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Missing hyphen, misrelated participle, and bathos apart, this sentence founders on the embarrassing misconception of the tone of trendy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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One would not expect a letter in the press pointing out the lawsuits about Obama's birthplace to invite retorts by the hyphenated hyperbolist constitutional scholar and his distaff cheerleader.
Undefined
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As you type, WordPerfect will automatically insert a soft hyphen where appropriate, without stopping for you to position the cursor.
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But Dan Perry of the AP was there and interviewed the hyphenates, Domscheit-Berg and Garton-Ash, on the record.
Jeff Jarvis: The Disruptors Arrive at Davos
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The same holds for other dividers, such as colons, dashes, hyphens, and blanks.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
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I don’t know about you, but when the vowels are the same, I’m ducking diereses and following Times style by switching to hyphens.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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A hyphen is an acceptable alternative to a comma.
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As the hyphens and slash marks indicate, these emergent literatures do not fit under a single rubric.
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The crusade against 'hyphenates' will only inflame the partial patriotism of trans-nationals, and cause them to assert their European traditions in strident and unwholesome ways.
Trans-national America
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hyphenate these words and names
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Do not use a hyphen when extra- means outside of unless the prefix is followed by a word beginning with a or a capitalized word:
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
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List of copy-text hyphens that happen to occur at line endings in this edition; each of these is hyphenated in this edition and in the copy-text Autobiographies 1955.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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We get a couple of noun phrases with hyphenated compound prenominal attributive modifiers like outcome-related, real-world, and whole-of-organisation, and that's just about it.
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I mean, isn't that what oddly hyphenated phrases are all about?
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In other words, would we be willing to give up some of our cherished "hyphens," if that was the price of doing away with hyphenated-Canadianism in other parts of the country?
The New Canada
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Now, with laser and inkjet printers setting type in proportional fonts, we can go back to using em dashes as they were meant to be used -- but people are still typing double hyphens.
Archive 2008-05-01
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Like my humorists, I prefer my heart docs to be hyphenates.
Stephen J. Gertz: S.J. Perelman, Humorist, Cardiology a Specialty
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And the "hyphens" raise a loud hurrah and blow themselves to drinks;
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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Jackson's family originally wanted the name changed entirely, while Hartsfield's family opposed the hyphenation.
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To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '.
RESCUING ROSE
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Many common usage words will be effected whereas Brazilians must only become accustomed to a few missing accents, for example in idéia and vôo (which are now spelled ideia and voo), and also to new hyphenation rules.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Ordem e Progresso: Brazilian Portuguese spelling reform
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A typical example occurs (as one might expect) at the entry for deipnosophist where a line that normally contains about 50 characters (plus spaces), has been printed with only 34 characters (plus spaces), mainly, apparently, because no one knew where to hyphen Deipnosophistai, the first word on the next line.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
