Compound and hyphenated

Posted on March 10, 2004 @ 14:33 in General

I'm informed that I need to spell the compound adjectives "English-speaking" and "Dutch-developed" with a hyphen. Which makes me wonder... does "high profile" also needs a hyphen or is that a hyphenless compound adjective? Or, is this maybe a difference in spelling between British and American English?

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  1. Best practice/practise is always to type a sample sentence into a word processor, see what the spelling checker dictionary has to say, take it with a pinch of salt and draw conclusions (on the wall, to quote Dylan).
    Intuitively I would've said that high profile used as an adjective (such as 'a high-profile deal') would be hyphenated and as noun construction ('he kept a high profile') not. Then, both US and UK spelling checkers think both versions, with and without hyphen, are cool.
    Other thing... The Dutch spelling checker seems to think of the phrase 'high profile' that just 'profile' isn't Dutch, i.e. that 'high' is correct Dutch.

    Posted by Arjan on March 10, 2004 @ 15:48

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