Note also that most North American publishers use a hyphen after non only when it precedes a capital letter, so non-British and non-European, but nonbeliever and even nonnative. British …

Oct 1, 2015 · Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix. Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives. …

May 20, 2018 · Logically, then, "non-dead" might mean something like "not having died" (true of rocks and living people), and "undead" might mean "living." But word constructions don't …

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 …

Jul 30, 2013 · It depends on the position of the adjective: You have to say "this is a non-significant variable," but you can say "this variable is not significant" or "... non-significant". (There may …

Jan 12, 2018 · Or if you want to be even more clear (and are OK with something longer), non-English-language films. Both are used and mean the same thing (films not in the English …

Jul 18, 2018 · That is a good point -- 'not' is an adverb, but when it is morphed onto 'one' in 'none' it no longer affects the verb. You can either choose its plurality to be ambiguous "there is/are …

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Aug 29, 2018 · 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 …

Sep 19, 2012 · You used the dash in the wrong place: what you have written is a (non-zero)–sum game, which makes no sense. When you start with a hyphenated word, like zero-sum, than to …