<div dir="ltr">In English, a hyphen is a orthographic convention required when spelling
various compound words:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Hyphenated_compound_adjectives">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Hyphenated_compound_adjectives</a><br><br>I imagine the Philippine language Robert is working with has a book name like "Apostle-Works" (i.e. Acts)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Marsden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmarsden@fastmail.fm">jmarsden@fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Robert,<br>
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On 9/29/2010 3:57 PM, Robert Hunt wrote:<br>
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> Oh! I guess I've been using hyphenated words in English since I learnt<br>
</div>> to write. I unthinkingly used it in the word "work-around" ...<br>
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That does not make it a letter. It just makes it a symbol used during<br>
writing. Letters are what make up the alphabet. The "-" in your word<br>
work-around is not part of the English alphabet. It is not a letter in<br>
English. It is punctuation. See the POSIX ispunct() and isalpha()<br>
functions and what they return. Less formally, when you learned and<br>
recited the alphabet in school, did it include "hyphen"? I rather doubt<br>
it :)<br>
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Jonathan<br>
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