Tag Archives: Dorothy Barck
It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen
Visitors to the New-York Historical Society (as well as many copy editors and printers throughout the ages) have often wondered why the title of our institution includes a hyphen between the “New” and “York”. The answer is simple; when the New-York Historical Society was founded in 1804, New York was generally written as “New-York.” This [...]
