Melvillian (non-)hyphenation
Language Log 2025-09-13
Summary:
Frazz 9/10/2025 — Caulfield and Mrs. Olson discuss Melville's novel: Continued in Frazz 9/11/2025: It's true that Moby-Dick is hyphenated in the title of the 1851 American edition: And also true that none of the other 80-odd instances of the whale's name in that edition are hyphenated, e.g. In the British first edition, even the […]