A bar code or a bar code? 15 when we put a hyphen where it is not necessary

1. "In general," rather than "in-general"

"In general," is transformed into "general", "in general" or altogether profane hyphen. It seems, in my lifetime that word suffered enough and deserved literate writing.

2. "As if," and not "as if"

Particle "if" in principle written separately with other words, and its version of the "as if" - is no exception.

3. "Hardly," and not "hardly"

Everything is simple as ABC: the particle "if" is always written separately. This also applies to "unlikely", and "what if" and other similar structures.

4. "I did" instead of "I did"

With particle "after" more difficult - have to remember the rule. adverbs Verbs and other particles require a hyphen. The rest of the speech, with the exception of "still" and "as yet" ready to do a space. Therefore, the "straight-away", but "he did."

5. "Some people have" and not "something in-one"

The desire to stick particle "something" to another word is clear: it does not look like a full-fledged part of speech. However, if the "something" is separated from the pronoun pretext, hyphens do not need, "something for someone", "some people have."

6. "Door to door" rather than "door-to-door"

Adverbial combinations, in which there are repeated nouns are written with spaces. There is only one exception - "a hair's breadth."

7. "One," and not "one by one"

"One by one" really can be written with a hyphen, as is the adverb: "Making first one by one, then in another." But often take over dialect noun with a preposition. Therefore, it is important to remember: the adverb "first", "second", "third in" hyphenated and collective numerals with the pretext of "one", "threes" - separately.

8. "Whether it's" instead of "whether it is"

You are the fifth class remember that the particles "the", "a", "something" is always written with a preceding word by a hyphen, and indeed it is. Only in the "whether" "it" - the demonstrative pronoun, and play by the rules, it refuses particles. So arm yourself with a space.

9. "Online" and not "on-line"

And to the "offline" is also true. These two words are found on the internet with a hyphen is often, although it is unclear how this character got there. After all, in the English language online and offline is also written together.

10. "Start-up" rather than "start-up"

The Russian spelling dictionary RAS fixed version without the hyphen. But do not remove this sign away: you'll need it if you want to add to the "startup" is another word. For example, to make him a "start-up project."

11. "Arthouse", rather than "art-house"

FROM art house and so everything is easy, no need to even a hyphen and the word simple. In addition, the word "house" in the Russian language is not used as an independent (except homonym indicating jungle cat), which explains the conjoint writing. But in the "art project" and "art director" can not do without the hyphen.

12. "Dust jacket" and not a "super-cover"

The prefix "super" is written together with the root of the word, Superman will not lie. Although there are exceptions: a super grand prix, super-premium class and other words, where there is a single hyphen, and the Freudian superego.

13. "Barcode" and not a "bar code"

Is an abbreviation for "bar code", and in such cases the Russian language does not include spaces. Here you can add an "economy class" (economy class) and the "mass media" (mass media).

14. "Non grata" rather than "non grata"

Do not waste hyphens on the person, not trusted. Reserving them for someone more suitable. By the way, in the Latin version of persona non grata, too, only spaces.

15. "Showroom", and not "show-room"

Infrequently occurring words in the dictionary, which came a mysterious situation. Until 2012, the Russian Academy of Sciences recommended the spelling dictionary to write it with a hyphen, now - without him.