Re: a question of style

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net>]

"Dok, D. van" <d vandok ecn nl> writes:

> <quote>

> Newly coined nonce words are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen
> disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to
> write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and
> ``software''; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words.

[...]

> </quote>

Digression: for German, it's completely different, especially with the
new guidelines from 1998/2000 ;)

Of course, the english languages have their own rules!

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