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Neither secular nor pluralist feels quite right. secular excludes people who are religious, rather than being inclusive of both religious and non-religious people. The sense I'm hoping to convey is that while most people in the US do take the day off, there's something welcoming about not assuming that everyone wants the day off. 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-). 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. 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 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). YES non zero Oxford English Dictionary ‘an extremely small but non-zero chance ’ Your question: Is this phrasing peculiar to American speakers or do British speakers use this expression too? I hear and use this In AmE frequently. My sense is to imply a minuscule chance, a slim chance, a small chance etc. Is there any difference in usage between inconclusive and non-conclusive (nonconclusive)? inconclusive is more popular in research compared to non-conclusive, using PubMed search, 20,872 and 260 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). 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. 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.

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