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Improving_MY_English Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

is it a mistake to write it like this "week-end"

I've found this sentence in my book It is not worth travelling on a long journey just for the week-end.
It's the first time I've seen weekend splled like this. Is it a miskate?
  

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IT should be one word, no hyphen.

— Nona the brit

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IT should be one word, no hyphen.
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Unless... it comes at the end of a line of typing like yours just did, and so it is broken into two parts with a hyphen. Under any other circumstances, it's as Nona said.
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Or unless you write it in 'French': 'week-end' is the most common spelling in that language.
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Sorry, but "week-end" is an equally valid spelling of "weekend". In fact it is the only spelling in the Shorter OED.

-Duncan
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