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There is no such thing as "correct" or "incorrect" hyphenation, or for that matter "correct English". Source: linguists > Linguists insist that it’s wrong to designate any kind of English “proper” because language always changes and always has. ... Rather, what is considered proper English is, like so much else, a matter of fashion. Author: > John McWhorter, contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist for The New York Daily News, teaches linguistics, American studies and Western civilization at Columbia University. His latest book is “What Language Is, What It Isn’t and What It Could Be.” https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20... | ||