Ami Bera

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

American Politician

Mona Eltahawy

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?

Egyptian Journalist

Margaret Stohl

Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from.

American Author

Tom Weston-Jones

The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.

English Actor

Tamlyn Tomita

We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that's why being cognizant of our histories is important.

Japanese Actress

Bob Dole

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

Ron Paul

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Hasan Minhaj

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

American Actor

Carlos Beruff

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

American Businessman

Neil Blumenthal

The key to an ideal workplace, in one hyphenated word, is this: self-awareness.

Use a hyphen to create new words that combine meanings, such as 'part-time' or 'editor-in-chief'.

Compound Words

A hyphen is used when a long word doesn't fully fit at the end of a line and splits onto the next.

Word Division

Hyphens connect prefixes like 'ex-', 'non-', or 'post-' and suffixes like '-elect' to root words.

Prefixes/Suffixes

Hyphenating compound modifiers before a noun adds clarity, like 'high-quality product'.

Clarity in Composition

Some compounds can be hyphenated or written as one word; use a dictionary to check, like 'wellbeing' or 'well-being'.

Optional Hyphens

Do not hyphenate adverb-adjective pairs where the adverb ends in 'ly', like 'highly skilled worker'.

Adverb-Adjective Pairs

 I created this space to be a cyberhome for many of us who are misunderstood in our different home countries. There are millions of Enodis who use hyphens to connect their countries of origin with their various homes in the US

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