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  2. Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow - Wikipedia

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    He formally adopted Oskar, which gave him his hyphenated name. The Godmother. When the Phoenix Works went bankrupt, they moved to Stuttgart, his step-father's hometown. There he completed his secondary education and, following his parents' wishes, went to Bonn to study the natural sciences.

  3. Stepfather - Wikipedia

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    The Stepfather depicts an evil father who has murdered his family and subsequent families. [citation needed] In his opera La Cenerentola, Gioacchino Rossini inverted the tale of Cinderella to have her oppressed by her stepfather. His motive is made explicit, in that providing a dowry to Cenerentola would cut into what he can give to his own ...

  4. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...

  5. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  6. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    The four hyphen/dash-like characters used in Wikipedia are: - is a hyphen-minus (ASCII 2D, Unicode 002D), normally used as a hyphen, or in math expressions as a minus sign – is an en dash (Unicode 2013). This can also be entered from the Special characters: Symbols bar above the text-entry field; it's between the m³ and —

  7. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .

  8. Cecil Day-Lewis - Wikipedia

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    His father took the surname "Day-Lewis" as a combination of his own birth father's ("Day") and adoptive father's ("Lewis") surnames. [4] In his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), Day-Lewis wrote: "As a writer I do not use the hyphen in my surname – a piece of inverted snobbery which has produced rather mixed results." [5]

  9. JuJu Smith-Schuster - Wikipedia

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    He has one biological sister named So'omalo and their father was not active in their lives. [118] His stepfather, Lawrence Schuster, was introduced to his mother, Sammy (Toa) when Smith-Schuster was four years old. [117] Smith-Schuster legally hyphenated his last name after he turned 18, adding Schuster in honor of his stepfather. [119]