re: #90 Barefoot Grin

Hyphen when two or more words are combined to form a modifier, or something like that.

There are no “official” rules in English for when you should use a hyphen.

It is most often used when:

a) separating the syllables of a word
b) breaking a word at the end of a line (LGF does this automatically because Mr. Johnson is very good at what he does)
c) when there is possible confusion over which word is modified by an adjective or adverb (the hyphen attaches it to the word modified)
d) prefixes and suffixes when a first glance does not provide clarity (example, refresh used to have a hyphen but no longer does, however, co-worker is recommended with a hyphen because the eye might be otherwise drawn to a first syllable “cow” which muddles the meaning). Another example is “re-creation” versus “recreation.”
e) Words which people become familiar with will generally lose a hyphen to a closed up style, for example E-mail (which is the way I still write it) from the 1990’s had mostly been altered to email by 2010.