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Examples

  • If something looks bad to you (those pesky hypens), it might just be that you have bad (i.e., uneducated) taste.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Use of Hyphens: 2007

  • I'll connect them for free hypens are an amazing invention SubEthaEdit-OneNote.

    Connected Documents - Anil Dash 2004

  • You can use commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens/dashes, and other typical symbols in the post like "My Site - Here's Lookin 'at You, Kid."

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Themedaily 2010

  • You can use commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens dashes, and other typical symbols in the post like

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Themedaily 2010

  • Using 'unfriendly' characters in URLs, such as underscores instead of hypens

    Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010

  • You can use commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens/dashes, and other typical symbols in the post like "My Site - Here's Lookin 'at You, Kid."

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Themedaily 2010

  • Peter Cannon --- Thunderbolt (please note the mandatory three hypens), for Charlton Comics in the mid-1960s.

    COMIXTALK 2009

  • Peter Cannon --- Thunderbolt (please note the mandatory three hypens), for Charlton Comics in the mid-1960s.

    COMIXTALK 2009

  • These new vanity URLs can only include numbers, letters, and periods - no hypens or underscores.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • To help Americans pronounce his name correctly, he named his brand Chef Boy-Ar-Dee (later the company got rid of the hypens).

    Neatorama 2009

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