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You should have been around in the early days, when not only was there no hyphenation but any hyphenated or dash-connected term was treated as a single word, which created awful gaps when something like hard-to-find appeared toward the end of a line. I pretty much gave up hyphenation (it usually isn't necessary even though traditional) and to treat dashes in British English, with a space before and after. I now like it that way, and do it by choice, even though the Chicago Manual doesn't approve. (They'll catch up to me eventually. They usually do, mostly recently by preferring US to U.S.)
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