And it just goes to show you what a great resource AP’s Twitter feed can be. Only in the age of social media could editing rules change so quickly under the pressure of popular demand. But we’re keeping the no-hyphen first grade student, just like high school student.”
“So to conform, we are returning the hyphen to the -quarter phrases. “Upon further reflection and thanks to your feedback, we’re reversing that decision,” editors tweeted. “We agree that, for instance, first-half run should be hyphenated,” they wrote. The objections, it appears, are rooted partly in the fact that removing hyphens from “-quarter” creates some inconsistencies with AP’s style on “-half” - inconsistencies even the AP acknowledges. “Some of you disagreed with our move to delete the hyphen from first-quarter touchdown, third-quarter earnings and other -quarter terms,” the AP Stylebook folks tweeted on Sept. Shortly after announcing they were pulling back on hyphens in certain situations, AP got pushback, especially regarding sports terms.įor example, the editors earlier this year decided there should no longer be a hyphen in “first quarter touchdown.” That didn’t go over well. But they haven’t shifted as far as AP thought.
“It is optional in most cases, a matter of taste, judgment and style sense.”Īnd tastes, it seems, have shifted toward fewer hyphens. “Use of the hyphen is far from standardized,” the AP social media team tweeted. Specifically, I reported that AP is going lighter on them, arguing that if a hyphen doesn’t do anything to make a compound modifier easier to understand, you can often ditch it. Recently, I wrote about some changes to the AP Stylebook’s rules on hyphens.
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