Adam Zeidan
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Adam Zeidan is an Assistant Managing Editor, having joined Encyclopædia Britannica in 2018.
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Hyphen, punctuation mark (-) used to connect word elements that are written disjointedly or to divide a word at the end of a line of text. The hyphen’s lineage is traced to a punctuation mark created by Dionysius Thrax, a Classical Greek grammarian who flourished in the late Hellenistic period when…
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