- Using non- to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language Usage . . .
Note also that most North American publishers use a hyphen after non only when it precedes a capital letter, so non-British and non-European, but nonbeliever and even nonnative British publishers are much more apt to hyphenate all non-compounds no matter the following latter, so non-believer and non-native Just don’t hyphenate nonchalant :)
- No, not, and non - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives Consequently there are lots of exceptions to the general rules below Non- is not a word, but a part of another word, usually a descriptive adjective:
- prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . .
"Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something (rather than the opposite or reverse of it, as often expressed by un-)
- hyphenation - Is the use of a hyphen between non and an adjective . . .
Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen British rules differ, and the "non-" construction is frequently found in the literature
- is it a word - unintuitive vs nonintuitive vscounter-intuitive . . .
Similar unintuitive results are obtained when the sentences stand in non-formal logical relations B Hale et al ; A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (2017) Although the non-ramified or simple theory of types has attracted much subsequent work, all type theory suffers from a problem of unintuitive duplication
- Use of the prefix non- on compound words [duplicate]
Adding non-in front of a compound adjective can make it ambiguous; I would recommend only doing it if it's clearly non-ambiguous (like the first examples below) There are some compound adjectives that sound perfectly fine if you add non-in front of them: non-English-speaking customers, non-nuclear-powered submarines
- compounds - Dash after the prefix non - English Language Usage . . .
To record and summarize the discussion in the comments, while the OED mostly uses the hyphen, many other dictionaries don't, and the ngrams show higher non-hyphenated usage than hyphenated Since using the hyphen is never wrong, and is preferred in some cases, when in doubt use the hyphen, and only omit it if you happen to know a word is
- meaning - What are the subtle differences between nonarticulate . . .
The only verb you have I think is "misarticulate" "unarticulate" is recognised by Collins Some dictionaries define these various words strictly in terms of speech, others define it in its more general sense, which has many meanings If you understand those prefixes, non-, un-, in-, mis-, you should understand –
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