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 …

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 …

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 valid …

Aug 29, 2018 · 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 …

Sep 19, 2012 · You used the dash in the wrong place: what you have written is a (non-zero)–sum game, which makes no sense. When you start with a hyphenated word, like zero-sum, than to …

Nov 14, 2011 · Consumables are items that you need to periodically replace in order for a non-consumable device to perform its intended function. Printer cartridges, fax rolls, photocopier …

Feb 2, 2021 · When I make task lists, some tasks are important, some tasks are urgent, and some are neither. I need a word to describe tasks that are not urgent, not so important, but can't be …

Is there any difference in usage between inconclusive and non-conclusive (nonconclusive)? inconclusive is more popular in research compared to non-conclusive, using PubMed search, …

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 pitch. …

non: nonviolent, nonevent, nonnegotiable, but non-beer-drinking Other style guides differ, and of course personal preferences are all over the map; but the coverage in Oxford and Chicago …