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Hanuman_2000 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Now-a-days

Sir,

I was reading a book in whcih the word nowadays was written like "now-a-days".

Is "now-a-days" correct?

Thanks.
  

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I always write it as one word, and the hyphenated form looks antiquated to me. html "]HERE[/url].

— Mister Micawber

  • I always write it as one word, and the hyphenated form looks antiquated to me.
  • html "]HERE[/url].
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I always write it as one word, and the hyphenated form looks antiquated to me. My dictionary does not list the hyphenated form, but Brewer, I see, hyphenates it in his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): [url="http://www.bartleby.com/81/12229.html"]HERE[/url].



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