Style Bites » R http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites A style guide for the editors of Serious Eats Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 re- (and ‘re-create’ vs. ‘recreate’) http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2009/02/04/re/ http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/2009/02/04/re/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:20:48 +0000 akuban http://www.adamkuban.com/stylebites/?p=84 Most re- words are closed up—reread, relearn, refried, for example.

But watch out for instances where adding the re- prefix introduces ambiguity—re-create and recreate are two very different concepts, for example. Use the hyphen when you are talking about creating something anew.

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