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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 @robocall@lemmy.world's comment)
None of them need dashes. I guess two is my favorite if I have to have a dash.
There is a standard, compound modifiers preceding the noun. There are also exceptions, proper nouns and their transformations don’t get hyphenated.
Phrases containing a proper noun should not be hyphenated.
Joke's on you, there is no noun
America
The phrase does not contain the word "America". Look again.
You win this round
Did you just denoune America?
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\bmeans a word boundary.