Don’t read this column. Really. It’s not like the other articles out there that impart knowledge. Instead, this one could leave you feeling like you know less than you did before you started reading.

Grammar expert June Casagrande tackles the use of hyphens with a close look at eight multiword terms that writers sometimes get wrong.

Don't read this column. Really. It's not like the other articles out there that impart knowledge. Instead, this one could leave you feeling like you know less than you did before you started reading.

Narrator: Oh no Brain! They're not the same thing at all. In fact they're really quite different. A hyphen is used to join two words together that describe a noun. They help us avoid confusion when ...

When two words come together, they often affirm their friendly meeting with a hyphen-handshake. Unfortunately, we’re often as unsure about hyphens as we are about handshakes. Do we shake hands, for ...