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“White people can describe themselves with just American. Only when pressed do they go into their ethnic heritage. Doesn't seem fair that I have to forever explain my origin story with that silent hyphen, whereas white people don't. It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated.”

Simple Complicated Ethnicity American Origins White People Korean American Hyphen Hyphenated Simplicated

Book:Frankly in Love

Source: Frankly in Love

“If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.”

Language Interpretation Punctuation Comma Hyphen

Author:Mary Norris

“Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of 'Moby-Dick.”

Moby Dick Herman Melville Hyphen

Book:The Classics Reclassified

Source: The Classics Reclassified

“From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.”

Relationships Travel Hyphen

Book:The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Source: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration