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hyphen
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hyphen: see punctuation punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and
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The trick in all this is to use a hypen to avoid confusing the reader's eye.
Note that Access converts the hypens (-) in the date to slashes (/).
It is significant that the hypen is understood here as a link, a plus rather than a minus, for Cuban-American culture has not developed as the result of conquest, as in the case of the Mexican-American and the Native American.
 
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