In English, a hyphen is a orthographic convention required when spelling various compound words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Hyphenated_compound_adjectives
I imagine the Philippine language Robert is working with has a book name like "Apostle-Works" (i.e. Acts) On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>wrote: > Robert, > > On 9/29/2010 3:57 PM, Robert Hunt wrote: > > > Oh! I guess I've been using hyphenated words in English since I learnt > > to write. I unthinkingly used it in the word "work-around" ... > > That does not make it a letter. It just makes it a symbol used during > writing. Letters are what make up the alphabet. The "-" in your word > work-around is not part of the English alphabet. It is not a letter in > English. It is punctuation. See the POSIX ispunct() and isalpha() > functions and what they return. Less formally, when you learned and > recited the alphabet in school, did it include "hyphen"? I rather doubt > it :) > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > -- Weston Ruter http://weston.ruter.net/ @westonruter <http://twitter.com/westonruter> - Google Profile<http://www.google.com/profiles/WestonRuter#about>
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