25 Does "non-" prefixed to a two word phrase permit another hyphen before the second word? If I want to refer to an entity which is defined as the negation of another entity by attaching "non-" …

The bound morpheme non is the negator for life-threatening here, so 'life-threatening' is more coherent. This does not come across with nonlife-threatening, which would seem to imply a …

Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin. Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen. British …

The usage of a non-breaking space is explained in a Wikipedia article under Non-breaking spaces and Controlling line breaks and below in items 1 and 5: It is advisable to use a non-breaking …

What term describes a non-offensive substitute for a swear word? For example, Battlestar Galactica used frack instead of fuck. Another example is the use of snap instead of shit. I think …

Atypical is by far the most common of the three, as confirmed in a Google Ngram search, so that would be my suggestion. Untypical is apparently most often used in the phrase "not untypical". …

It's an English adaptation of a Latin saying: De gustibus non est disputandum. Meaning literally regarding taste, there is no dispute. The phrase seems to be of medieval origin. The origin is …

To record and summarize the discussion in the comments, while the OED mostly uses the hyphen, many other dictionaries don't, and the ngrams show higher non-hyphenated usage …

Is a non-verbal predicate a synonymous term for "nominal predicate"? And moreover, do non-verbal predicates only appear with linking verbs or can also appear in other types of …

non: nonviolent, nonevent, nonnegotiable, but non-beer-drinking Other style guides differ, and of course personal preferences are all over the map; but the coverage in Oxford and Chicago …