Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Looking at ‘one word, two words or hyphenated’ issue

Health care, healthcare or health-care? Make up, makeup or make-up? Water ski, water-ski or waterski? Cell phone, cellphone or cell-phone? A lot of questions posed in this column elicit the answer: ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: When it comes to phrasal verbs, you can look them up, but you can’t look up them

Can you back your hard drive up? Or must you back up your hard drive? Can you calm yourself down? Or must you calm down yourself? Can you blow balloons up? Or must you blow up balloons? Can you hang ...