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Originally Posted by JSWolf
In the case of words such as ten-year-old, those as not hyphens. Those are dashes. Now if you had a word such as some-times, then yes, you have a hyphen that doesn't belong. But in most eBooks I've been reading, I've not seen a hyphen. I've seen dashes (they are not hyphens) and the hyphens I do see are added in on the fly by the reading software. So what you are worrying about is nothing at all. Hyphens/dashes are not the issue you make them out to be. If you have a scanned eBook that you scanned,just search for hyphens/dashes and delete the ones that are hyphens and leave the dashes. Simple really.
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Jon, Jon, Jon... Where were you when your English class covered compound words? They come in three basic groups. Closed (grandfather & downstream as examples), open (carry over & half brother as examples) and, lastly, we have hyphenated compound words, Examples would be son-in-law, twenty-seven, ten-year-old, over-the-counter. As you might guess from the name "
hyphenated compound words", the separator is a hyphen and not any flavour of dash. You would never use an en dash, an em dash or a figure dash to separate the segments of a compound work.