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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
[...] but to-day with a hyphen is just irritating to me)
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AFAIK, the first style guide that recommended replacing to-day with today was H.W. Fowler's hugely popular book
The King's English, which was first published in 1906.
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Originally Posted by Fowler
There comes a time when compound words that have long had a hyphen should drop it; this is when they have become quite familiar. It seems absurd to keep any longer the division in to-day and to-morrow; there are no words in the language that are more definitely single and not double words; so much so that the ordinary man can give no explanation of the to.
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I.e., even purists can't complain if you replace to-day with today in books published after 1906.
