Hyphen in a sentence as a noun

Heck, why can't I use a hyphen or a number?

But adjectives that end in "-ly" can be hyphenated.

Yes, redistribution!This is correct up right up until the hyphen.

Is it me or do I see a hyphen in front of the amount, making him not the richest guy in the world, but poorer than all nations of the world?

But there is no rule prohibiting the compound-hyphenation of adjectives with "-ly" endings.

I don't know, there are so many factors that go into SEO that assuming, "Oh, it's the hyphen in the domain name" seems a little anecdotal to me.

Hyphen in a sentence as a verb

The subtleties of hyphen placement aren't very important, and this is a dumb place to filter out private IP addresses when a domain could always resolve to one. Checking if an IP is valid should be a later step.

However, your search engine returns neither me nor my singing rival as the top result...instead you return the domain that is my first and last name with a hyphen, which is exactly the superficial result that Google was designed to avoid.

How long have you been in the SO and HN communities?Joel and Jeff setup SO because EE sucked so bad, from the beginning they've said 'we're not going to end up like the site with the hyphen'.And now you're saying they're going to go against their entire raison d'etre?

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Ignoring the fact that non-terminal users regularly want spaces, hyphens and newlines in their filenames since they have visual purpose...The argument in favor of newlines is the same argument in favor of spaces in filenames or filenames starting with hyphen: the filesystem should not be restricted by bash and other shell scripts continual confusion between data and instructions.

Hyphen definitions

noun

a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text

See also: dash

verb

divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"

See also: hyphenate