Hyphen
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The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation.
First page of the first volume: the epistle of St Jerome to Paulinus from the University of Texas copy. The page has 40 lines.
Compound (linguistics)
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In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. Compounding
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…wayside. The Middle Ages also saw the introduction of the marginal hyphen, for words broken across lines, and also the compound-word hyphen, for forming hyphenated compounds. It is unclear, and a matter of scholarly debate, whether the compound-word hyphen came from the marginal hyphen or vice versa. Johannes Gutenberg, in…
Sewage-treatment-facility – The German language has many compounds.