Closed cndiaye6 closed 4 years ago
Looping in @twoangstroms on what the correct usage of the hyphen is. Blocking this issue until copy editors reach consensus:
Related to https://github.com/zerobase-io/smart-tracing/issues/162 Related to https://github.com/zerobase-io/smart-tracing/issues/133
Please also see how many times this has gone back and forth: https://github.com/zerobase-io/smart-tracing/issues?q=privacy+first
There are two different cases possibly being conflated:
Use as a modifier (Example: "Privacy-first application"): this is a compound adjective, as as such, should be hyphenated.
Stand alone (Example: "We value privacy first" has "first" modify "privacy", or "Privacy First" when it's not modifying anything as in a footer heading): here the phrase does not modify anything, and should not be hyphenated.
See https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/hyphen_use.html
in the bolded paragraph under the title beginning "Zerobase is a..."