APA News: Hyphen


Link to publication. Stay abreast of APA and don’t forget to order your new edition. Excerpt:

We updated our hyphen guidance this year to say no hyphen is needed in a compound modifier if the modifier is commonly recognized as one phrase, and if the meaning is clear and unambiguous without the hyphen.
One example is first quarter touchdown. pic.twitter.com/8AJc0zCwJm

— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) August 28, 2019

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