compounds

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 hyphenated.

The line between inappropriate and acceptable use of the n-word in

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, are there any

Use of the prefix "non-" on compound words [duplicate]

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 " adjective1 adjective2 ".

No, not, and non

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 pragmatically / idiomatically,

no not

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).

prefixes

"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 something (rather than the

When is it appropriate to use non-breaking spaces? [closed]

The usage of a non-breaking space is explained in a Wikipedia article under Non-breaking spaces and Controlling line breaks and below in items 1 and 5: It is advisable to use a non-breaking space (also

hyphenation

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. British rules differ, and

Using "non-" to prefix a two-word phrase

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 attaching "non-" it seems

Is English really a non-tonal language?

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 pitch. There are a