“Ex-” always takes a hyphen, while your “ex-wife’s” “great-grandfather” or her “half sister” may or may not be hyphenated. But hyphens can be overused, too. Do you really need one in “day care center” ...

In the years I've been writing this column, I've heard from a lot of people with vivid memories about grammar lessons they got in school. A Word, Please: Decoding the hyphen ...

There is a lot of debate around hyphen usage in the grammar-nerd world (see: here), but I don’t think it seems nearly as egregious as calling one form of punctuation by another’s name. K.B.: ...

Hyphens are a pain. ... Grammar monkeys, that is. That’s what the copy editors of the Kansas newspaper the Wichita Eagle call themselves in their popular blog, https: ...

Let's take a minute to get Grammar-Real: It has come to my attention of late that many of us are using hyphens wrong. This is not, of course, the hyphen's fault.

English grammar leans heavily on punctuation, but the rules can be mushy. Take the hyphen, for example. There was never a mushier punctuation mark than the hyphen. Why do we use it? When do we use it?

Commas, dashes and ellipses already had clearly defined roles, ... Grammar Geekery: How to use dashes, ellipses and commas to create … a dramatic pause. November 6, 2014. By Bill Walsh.

The Winston-Salem Dash are the high-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. They are also have a proper minor league team name -- a half-silly tribute to the local scene that looks good on a hat.