Hyphenating “Pulitzer Prize winning” as adjective
I'm looking for authority on hyphenating the following phrase with a compound modifier. Which is correct?
She was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter
The Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. at sections 5.92 and 5.93 covers some of this topic, but doesn't seem conclusive on this particular case.
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I'm looking for authority on hyphenating the following phrase with a compound modifier. Which is correct?
She was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter
The Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. at sections 5.92 and 5.93 covers some of this topic, but doesn't seem conclusive on this particular case.
compound-adjectives open-vs-closed-vs-hyhenated
1
What does the free, comprehensive CMOS pdf on hyphen usage say?
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:30
Also check 6.80 of the CMOS proper.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:36
Please include the research you’ve done. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
– Edwin Ashworth
May 3 at 21:09
1
I don't have Chicago 17, but Chicago12 through 16 consistently assert that a proper name consisting of two or more words should not be hyphenated internally. Instead, all of those editions advocate using an en dash (not a hyphen) to attach the following word of the compound modifier to the proper name. So in your example, the Chicago-approved form would be Pulitzer Prize–winning (not Pulitzer Prize-winning or Pulitzer-Prize-winning).
– Sven Yargs
May 4 at 6:52
Thanks Sven. Yes, I see that now at CMOS 17 Section 6.80: "The en dash can be used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements consists of an open compound or when both elements consist of hyphenated compounds.Whereas a hyphen joins exactly two words, the en dash is intended to signal a link across two. Because this editorial nicety will go unnoticed by the majority of readers it should be used sparingly, when a more elegant solution is unavailable." It's a rule, I guess, but it seems rather arbitrary and unsatisfactory. Thanks for the tip. Also in CMOS 15 at 6.85.
– jdscomms
May 4 at 13:40
add a comment |
I'm looking for authority on hyphenating the following phrase with a compound modifier. Which is correct?
She was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter
The Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. at sections 5.92 and 5.93 covers some of this topic, but doesn't seem conclusive on this particular case.
compound-adjectives open-vs-closed-vs-hyhenated
I'm looking for authority on hyphenating the following phrase with a compound modifier. Which is correct?
She was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, or
She was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter
The Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. at sections 5.92 and 5.93 covers some of this topic, but doesn't seem conclusive on this particular case.
compound-adjectives open-vs-closed-vs-hyhenated
compound-adjectives open-vs-closed-vs-hyhenated
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What does the free, comprehensive CMOS pdf on hyphen usage say?
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:30
Also check 6.80 of the CMOS proper.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:36
Please include the research you’ve done. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
– Edwin Ashworth
May 3 at 21:09
1
I don't have Chicago 17, but Chicago12 through 16 consistently assert that a proper name consisting of two or more words should not be hyphenated internally. Instead, all of those editions advocate using an en dash (not a hyphen) to attach the following word of the compound modifier to the proper name. So in your example, the Chicago-approved form would be Pulitzer Prize–winning (not Pulitzer Prize-winning or Pulitzer-Prize-winning).
– Sven Yargs
May 4 at 6:52
Thanks Sven. Yes, I see that now at CMOS 17 Section 6.80: "The en dash can be used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements consists of an open compound or when both elements consist of hyphenated compounds.Whereas a hyphen joins exactly two words, the en dash is intended to signal a link across two. Because this editorial nicety will go unnoticed by the majority of readers it should be used sparingly, when a more elegant solution is unavailable." It's a rule, I guess, but it seems rather arbitrary and unsatisfactory. Thanks for the tip. Also in CMOS 15 at 6.85.
– jdscomms
May 4 at 13:40
add a comment |
1
What does the free, comprehensive CMOS pdf on hyphen usage say?
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:30
Also check 6.80 of the CMOS proper.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:36
Please include the research you’ve done. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
– Edwin Ashworth
May 3 at 21:09
1
I don't have Chicago 17, but Chicago12 through 16 consistently assert that a proper name consisting of two or more words should not be hyphenated internally. Instead, all of those editions advocate using an en dash (not a hyphen) to attach the following word of the compound modifier to the proper name. So in your example, the Chicago-approved form would be Pulitzer Prize–winning (not Pulitzer Prize-winning or Pulitzer-Prize-winning).
– Sven Yargs
May 4 at 6:52
Thanks Sven. Yes, I see that now at CMOS 17 Section 6.80: "The en dash can be used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements consists of an open compound or when both elements consist of hyphenated compounds.Whereas a hyphen joins exactly two words, the en dash is intended to signal a link across two. Because this editorial nicety will go unnoticed by the majority of readers it should be used sparingly, when a more elegant solution is unavailable." It's a rule, I guess, but it seems rather arbitrary and unsatisfactory. Thanks for the tip. Also in CMOS 15 at 6.85.
– jdscomms
May 4 at 13:40
1
1
What does the free, comprehensive CMOS pdf on hyphen usage say?
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:30
What does the free, comprehensive CMOS pdf on hyphen usage say?
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:30
Also check 6.80 of the CMOS proper.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:36
Also check 6.80 of the CMOS proper.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:36
Please include the research you’ve done. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
– Edwin Ashworth
May 3 at 21:09
Please include the research you’ve done. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
– Edwin Ashworth
May 3 at 21:09
1
1
I don't have Chicago 17, but Chicago12 through 16 consistently assert that a proper name consisting of two or more words should not be hyphenated internally. Instead, all of those editions advocate using an en dash (not a hyphen) to attach the following word of the compound modifier to the proper name. So in your example, the Chicago-approved form would be Pulitzer Prize–winning (not Pulitzer Prize-winning or Pulitzer-Prize-winning).
– Sven Yargs
May 4 at 6:52
I don't have Chicago 17, but Chicago12 through 16 consistently assert that a proper name consisting of two or more words should not be hyphenated internally. Instead, all of those editions advocate using an en dash (not a hyphen) to attach the following word of the compound modifier to the proper name. So in your example, the Chicago-approved form would be Pulitzer Prize–winning (not Pulitzer Prize-winning or Pulitzer-Prize-winning).
– Sven Yargs
May 4 at 6:52
Thanks Sven. Yes, I see that now at CMOS 17 Section 6.80: "The en dash can be used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements consists of an open compound or when both elements consist of hyphenated compounds.Whereas a hyphen joins exactly two words, the en dash is intended to signal a link across two. Because this editorial nicety will go unnoticed by the majority of readers it should be used sparingly, when a more elegant solution is unavailable." It's a rule, I guess, but it seems rather arbitrary and unsatisfactory. Thanks for the tip. Also in CMOS 15 at 6.85.
– jdscomms
May 4 at 13:40
Thanks Sven. Yes, I see that now at CMOS 17 Section 6.80: "The en dash can be used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements consists of an open compound or when both elements consist of hyphenated compounds.Whereas a hyphen joins exactly two words, the en dash is intended to signal a link across two. Because this editorial nicety will go unnoticed by the majority of readers it should be used sparingly, when a more elegant solution is unavailable." It's a rule, I guess, but it seems rather arbitrary and unsatisfactory. Thanks for the tip. Also in CMOS 15 at 6.85.
– jdscomms
May 4 at 13:40
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The usual way of doing this is with an en dash, which can be used like a hyphen to join terms when they comprise multiple words (or, less commonly, an already hyphenated term):
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
pre–Civil War era
ex–vice president
non–drug-naïve patients
That Wikipedia article quotes the Chicago Manual of Style:
Use it in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound, or when two or more of its elements are compounds, open or hyphenated.
Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
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@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
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Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
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The usual way of doing this is with an en dash, which can be used like a hyphen to join terms when they comprise multiple words (or, less commonly, an already hyphenated term):
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
pre–Civil War era
ex–vice president
non–drug-naïve patients
That Wikipedia article quotes the Chicago Manual of Style:
Use it in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound, or when two or more of its elements are compounds, open or hyphenated.
Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
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@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
1
Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
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The usual way of doing this is with an en dash, which can be used like a hyphen to join terms when they comprise multiple words (or, less commonly, an already hyphenated term):
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
pre–Civil War era
ex–vice president
non–drug-naïve patients
That Wikipedia article quotes the Chicago Manual of Style:
Use it in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound, or when two or more of its elements are compounds, open or hyphenated.
Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
1
@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
1
Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
|
show 2 more comments
The usual way of doing this is with an en dash, which can be used like a hyphen to join terms when they comprise multiple words (or, less commonly, an already hyphenated term):
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
pre–Civil War era
ex–vice president
non–drug-naïve patients
That Wikipedia article quotes the Chicago Manual of Style:
Use it in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound, or when two or more of its elements are compounds, open or hyphenated.
The usual way of doing this is with an en dash, which can be used like a hyphen to join terms when they comprise multiple words (or, less commonly, an already hyphenated term):
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
pre–Civil War era
ex–vice president
non–drug-naïve patients
That Wikipedia article quotes the Chicago Manual of Style:
Use it in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of the elements of the adjective is an open compound, or when two or more of its elements are compounds, open or hyphenated.
answered May 2 at 23:16
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Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
1
@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
1
Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
|
show 2 more comments
Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
1
@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
1
Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
Thanks, Jon, that's interesting. It seems a bit fussy, though, expecting readers to see and absorb the difference between a hyphen and an en dash.
– jdscomms
May 2 at 23:25
1
1
@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
@jdscomms: You can just use a hyphen if you prefer; I think it’s perfectly understandable. I use the en dash just because I like how it provides some visual separation to encourage the reader to treat the compound as having higher “precedence” than the dash, i.e., “(Pulitzer Prize)-winning”, not “Pulitzer (Prize-winning)”, but it’s rarely ambiguous to just use a hyphen—or, honestly, even no hyphen at all.
– Jon Purdy
May 2 at 23:37
1
1
Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
Solid answer and I upvote! Proof of the pudding: google.com/search?q=%22pulitzer+prize+winning%22&ie= see how almost all sources have written Pulitzer Prize-winning as in your second option @jdscomms. Definitive proof comes from Ngrams: books.google.com/ngrams/…
– English Student
May 3 at 0:42
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
wikiPedia is quoting the 15th edition of the CMOS. That is two editions behind. Which is why wikipedia is not an authorative source.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:33
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
@user9825893y50932: Fair enough, but this is fairly standard and nearly general-reference—Wikipedia was just the easiest thing to link to. There are loads of citations just searching for “en dash”: The Punctuation Guide, Grammarly, Daily Writing Tips, CMOS §6.80 (which I didn’t link partly because it’s paywalled), and several questions & answers already on ELU.
– Jon Purdy
May 3 at 6:03
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What does the free, comprehensive CMOS pdf on hyphen usage say?
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:30
Also check 6.80 of the CMOS proper.
– Let's stop villifying Iran
May 3 at 4:36
Please include the research you’ve done. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
– Edwin Ashworth
May 3 at 21:09
1
I don't have Chicago 17, but Chicago12 through 16 consistently assert that a proper name consisting of two or more words should not be hyphenated internally. Instead, all of those editions advocate using an en dash (not a hyphen) to attach the following word of the compound modifier to the proper name. So in your example, the Chicago-approved form would be Pulitzer Prize–winning (not Pulitzer Prize-winning or Pulitzer-Prize-winning).
– Sven Yargs
May 4 at 6:52
Thanks Sven. Yes, I see that now at CMOS 17 Section 6.80: "The en dash can be used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements consists of an open compound or when both elements consist of hyphenated compounds.Whereas a hyphen joins exactly two words, the en dash is intended to signal a link across two. Because this editorial nicety will go unnoticed by the majority of readers it should be used sparingly, when a more elegant solution is unavailable." It's a rule, I guess, but it seems rather arbitrary and unsatisfactory. Thanks for the tip. Also in CMOS 15 at 6.85.
– jdscomms
May 4 at 13:40