Jun 10, 2014 · Word gives me red squiggles on 'Non-preemptive', but this looks silly with a double hyphenation. Which leads me to wonder why 'pre-emptive' is hyphenated anyway?

Apr 26, 2016 · What non-religious expressions can I use instead of "Thank God"? [closed] Ask Question Asked 9 years, 7 months ago Modified 3 years, 11 months ago

Mar 6, 2017 · Alternative names for a non-religious, anonymous game of "Secret Santa" Ask Question Asked 8 years, 9 months ago Modified 1 year, 6 months ago

Sep 19, 2012 · You used the dash in the wrong place: what you have written is a (non-zero)–sum game, which makes no sense. When you start with a hyphenated word, like zero-sum, than to make …

Oct 31, 2014 · They must be adjectives to take "non" meaning, so many of the words being contemplated are verbs which are not marked for the negative "a" morpheme. There's no shame in …

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-" it seems …

2 Illegitimi non carborundum, mock-Latin for "don't let the bastards grind you down", dates to early WWII, and later in the war was adopted by Gen."Vinegar" Joe Stillwell as his motto. For more, …

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 threat to non-life. …

Mar 24, 2015 · Given current usage, I very much doubt blessed is strictly considered religious (whatever that might mean). A similar word is thankful, which is rarely ever ascribed to any deity in particular in …

Oct 1, 2015 · At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto. They're all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and pragmatically / idiomatically, …