Talk:Alexander Hamilton (song)

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Ajd in topic Well known vs Well-known

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion edit

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 04:02, 23 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Well known vs Well-known edit

Hi, I am using this rule "If it is an adjective phrase preceding a noun, hyphenate it. If it does not precede the noun, do not hyphenate it. E.g., That is a well-known song. That song is well known."

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/well-known-vs-well-known.1852285/

What rule are you using?

Kaltenmeyer (talk) 21:58, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Well-known in this sense isn't synchronically an adjective phrase consisting of the adverb well modifying known; we can tell because it doesn't mean the same as known well. Well-known is, from a grammatical point of view, functioning here as a single adjective, which happens to be hyphenated (just as e.g. in-laws functions as a noun that happens to be spelled with a hyphen). AJD (talk) 07:48, 13 January 2022 (UTC)Reply