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- Using non- to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language Usage . . .
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 strange to attach the "non-" only to the first word when the second one is really the word naming the entity For example, non-control freak
- No, not, and non - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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, only the no version is likely to be used
- prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . .
"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 opposite or reverse of it, as often expressed by un-)
- hyphenation - Non-optional or non optional? - English Language . . .
In that context, which is more correct or more frequently used: non-optional or non optional? Searching for the more frequently used form in google is difficult, because a non-optional search shows non optional results as well This is for writing software documentation that explains the usage of an optional property which some objects have
- compounds - Dash after the prefix non - English Language Usage . . .
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
- Is non-life-threatening punctuated correctly with two hyphens?
The bound morpheme non is the negator for life-threatening here, so 'life-threatening' is more coherent This does not come across with nonlife-threatening, which would seem to imply a threat to non-life Leaving non stranded doesn't work either as it is a bound morpheme, a prefix not a word (in English) I'd use the two hyphens
- hyphenation - Is the use of a hyphen between non and an adjective . . .
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 the "non-" construction is frequently found in the literature
- no not - Non-significant or not significant variable? - English . . .
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)
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