Non-traditional christ

Non- may be joined to a word with a hyphen, standard in British usage as evidenced by OED’s typically including only the hyphenated forms, but some OED entries are spelled without hyphen only. In American usage, non- is non-traditional christ joined without a hyphen.

For combinations with capitalized words such as proper nouns and some adjectives, hyphen is almost always used, e. Meaning “not” in phrases taken from Latin and some other languages, non is a separate word and is not hyphenated: non compos mentis, persona non grata. As non- is a living and highly productive prefix, the list of words having the prefix non- is practically unlimited: Wiktionary currently has over 9000 such word forms. It is particularly common in the sciences. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo. Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 00:57.

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