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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

standard North-American sized

Can we please standardize handling of dashes in multi-word adverb-adjective phrases?

Option 1: North American-sized (most common)
Option 2: North-American sized (as seen in the article)
Option 3: North-American-sized (makes most sense to me)
Option 4: North American sized (Edit: added based on @[email protected]'s comment)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

None of them need dashes. I guess two is my favorite if I have to have a dash.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

There is a standard, compound modifiers preceding the noun. There are also exceptions, proper nouns and their transformations don’t get hyphenated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Phrases containing a proper noun should not be hyphenated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Joke's on you, there is no noun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

America

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The phrase does not contain the word "America". Look again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You win this round

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you just denoune America?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see what you did there.

"America" is indeed a proper noun. However, the phrase does not match the Regex expression \b(America)\b, where \b means a word boundary.