FOOTNOTES:
[20] ‘I protest against the unscholarly habit of omitting it from “abridgement”, “acknowledgement”, “judgement”, “lodgement”,—which is against all analogy, etymology, and orthoepy, since elsewhere g is hard in English when not followed by e or i. I think the University Press ought to set a scholarly example, instead of following the ignorant to do ill, for the sake of saving four e’s. The word “judgement” has been spelt in the Revised Version correctly.’—J. A. H. M.
HYPHENED AND
NON-HYPHENED WORDS[21]
The hyphen need not, as a rule, be used to join an adverb to the adjective which it qualifies: as in—
a beautifully furnished house,
a well calculated scheme.
When the word might not at once be recognized as an adverb, use the hyphen: as—
a well-known statesman,
an ill-built house,
a new-found country,
the best-known proverb,
a good-sized room.
When an adverb qualifies a predicate, the hyphen should not be used: as—
this fact is well known.
Where either (1) a noun and adjective or participle, or (2) an adjective and a noun, in combination, are used as a compound adjective, the hyphen should be used:
a poverty-stricken family, a blood-red hand, a nineteenth-century invention.
A compound noun which has but one accent, and from familiar use has become one word, requires no hyphen. Examples:
bláckbird
býname
býword
háirbrush
háirdresser
háirpin
hándbook
hándkerchief
mántelpiece
nówadays
schóolboy
schóolgirl
seáport
téapot
tórchlight
upstáirs
wátchcase
whéelbarrow
The following should also be printed as one word:
aglow
anybody
anyhow
anything
anywhere
bedroom
childbed
coeval
coexist
coextensive
coheir
cornfield
downhill
downstairs
evermore
everyday (as adj.)
everything
everyway (adverb)
everywhere
eyewitness
fairyland
fatherland
footsore
footstep
freshwater (as adj.)
godlike
goodwill
harebell
hopscotch
horseshoe
indoor
ladylike
lambskin
lifetime
maybe
meantime
meanwhile
midday
motherland
newfangled
noonday
offprint
offsaddle
offshoot
onrush
outdoor
overleaf
oversea
percentage
reappear
reimburse
reinstate
reopen
seaweed
selfsame
uphill
wellnigh
widespread
wrongdoing
zigzag
Compound words of more than one accent, as—ápple-trée, chérry-píe, grável-wálk, wíll-o’-the-wisp, as well as others which follow, require hyphens:
aide-de-camp
air-man
air-ship
a-kimbo
alms-house
arm-chair
battle-field
bird-cage
bi-weekly
by-law
by-way
child-birth
come-at-able
common-sense (as adj.)
co-adjust
co-declination
co-operate
co-ordinate
court-plaster
cousin-german
death-bed
death-rate
ding-dong
dumb-bell
ear-rings
farm-house
farm-yard
first-hand
foot-note
foot-stone
foot-stool
free-will
get-at-able
good-bye
good-day
good-humoured
good-natured
guide-book
gutta-percha
half-crown
half-dozen
half-hour
half-way
handy-man
harvest-field
head-dress
head-foremost
head-quarters
hey-day
high-flyer
hill-side
hill-top
hoar-frost
hob-a-nob
hour-glass
hymn-book
ill-fated
india-rubber
jaw-bone
key-note
knick-knack
life-like
looking-glass
man-of-war
never-ending
new-built
new-comer
new-mown
note-book
note-paper
off-hand
oft-times
one-and-twenty
one-eighth
ore-weed
out-and-out
out-of-date
out-of-door
over-glad
pre-eminent
quarter-day
race-course
re-bound[22] (as a book)
re-cover (a chair)
re-enter
re-form (form again)
rolling-pin
sea-breeze
sea-shore
second-hand
small-pox
son-in-law
starting-point
step-father
such-like
table-land
text-book
title-deeds
title-page
to-day
top-mast
topsy-turvy
up-to-date[23]
water-course
week-day
year-book
Half an inch, half a dozen, &c., require no hyphens. Print the following also without hyphens:
any one
cast iron
common sense (adj. and noun together)
court martial
dare say
easy chair
every one
fellow men
for ever
good humour
good nature
good night
head master[24]
high priest
high road
ill health
ill luck
ill nature
no one
plum pudding
post office
revenue office
some one
union jack
