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Handle with care: AP style drops the hyphen in healthcare, childcare and daycare

By Matthew CrowleyPoynter

The bombshells still explode. No more hyphen in email (Phoenix, 2011). Over is allowed, as a synonym for “more than” (Las Vegas, 2014).

Most hyphens are gone after prefixes (San […] The post Handle with care: AP style drops the hyphen in healthcare, childcare…

The bombshells still explode. No more hyphen in email (Phoenix, 2011). Over is allowed, as a synonym for more than (Las Vegas, 2014).

Most hyphens are gone after prefixes (San Diego, 2024). Now, the …