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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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To hyphenate or not to hyphenate...

Is it silky-smooth or silky smooth
  

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Oxford Online Dictionary has it as silky smooth , but a couple of other online dictionaries include the hyphen. The Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) has 444 entries without a hyphen, and 61 entries with a hyphen. It seems either is acceptable.

— Blue Jay

  • Oxford Online Dictionary has it as silky smooth , but a couple of other online dictionaries include the hyphen.
  • The Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) has 444 entries without a hyphen, and 61 entries with a hyphen.
  • It seems either is acceptable.
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Oxford Online Dictionary has it as silky smooth, but a couple of other online dictionaries include the hyphen.
The Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) has 444 entries without a hyphen, and 61 entries with a hyphen.
It seems either is acceptable.
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Our flight was silky smooth.
It was a silky-smooth flight.


CB
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Cool BreezeOur flight was silky smooth.It was a silky-smooth flight. CB
That works for me.
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