Use of the prefix "non-" on compound words
What is the correct way to apply the prefix "non-" to negate a (maybe dashed) compound adjective? Suppose that we want to negate a generic compound adjective " adjective1 adjective2 ".
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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.
No, not, and non
At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto. They''re all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and pragmatically / idiomatically,
hyphenation
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
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prefixes
"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
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YES non zero Oxford English Dictionary ''an extremely small but non-zero chance '' Your question: Is this phrasing peculiar to American speakers or do British speakers use this expression
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