Apparently using a hyphen correctly is old school. The folks at yahoo.com are leading the way with new and creative uses for that little line, adding it where it doesn’t belong, like here:
and here:
and here:
Perhaps they think a hyphen is necessary to join an adverb ending in LY to the word it modifies. It isn’t. The LY is enough of a signal to the reader that the adverb modifies the word that follows it.
June 17, 2012 at 10:29 am
You’re exactly-right.
June 17, 2012 at 11:20 am
Nicely-put!