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25 Does non- prefixed to a two word phrase permit another hyphen before the second word? If I want to refer to an entity which is defined as the negation of another entity by attaching non- it seems strange to attach the non- only to the first word when the second one is really the word naming the entity. For example, non-control freak To record and summarize the discussion in the comments, while the OED mostly uses the hyphen, many other dictionaries don't, and the ngrams show higher non-hyphenated usage than hyphenated. I am writing a statistics text and I am not sure if I should either use non-significant variables or not significant variables (or anything else). Non- is defined as a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something (rather than the opposite or reverse of it, as often expressed by un-). Non-repudiable exists, in generic/ broader legal usage corresponding to non-repudiation. non-repudiation (Wikipedia) Non-repudiation refers to a state of affairs where the purported maker of a statement will not be able to successfully challenge the validity of the statement or contract. See also: non-repudiable (ContentCreationWiki) NonRepudiable transaction can't be denied as having taken. 10 BrE: Non-existent used to be British spelling, but a couple of years back they did away with the hyphens of 16,000 hyphenated words. AmE: the answer above is the valid answer, just one word: nonexistent The American Heritage Dictionary 5th Ed. confirms this. So it appears the Standard Usage in both side of the Atlantic is one unhyphenated word. Except non is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin. Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen. British rules differ, and the non- construction is frequently found in the literature. A person who is accustomed to that framework may feel the need to use the phrase ‘non-zero probability’ or ‘non-zero chance’ to make it clear that whatever is talked about is not impossible. To a person who is not accustomed to it, such a phrase seems strange, just like the non-zero speed in the above example. At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto. They're all grammatically valid , but they all mean different things - and pragmatically / idiomatically, only the no version is likely to be used. What is the correct way to apply the prefix non- to negate a (maybe dashed) compound adjective? Suppose that we want to negate a generic compound adjective adjective1 adjective2 . In this case: non- adjective1 adjective2 looks a bit ambiguous since the scope of the prefix non- is at least unclear (in fact seems to affect only adjective1).

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