worldwide or world-wide ?

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ieasy

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Hi,

is it "a worldwide institution" or "a world-wide institution"? Or both cases are correct?
 

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Question:
Is it "a worldwide institution" or "a world-wide institution"? Or are both phrases correct?
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Both are, I think, acceptable, but I think worldwide is preferable.

~R
 

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Hi,

is it "a worldwide institution" or "a world-wide institution"? Or both cases are correct?

Hyphenation may have been an intermediate step in the combining of these two words, but the hyphen has disappeared.
 

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What Mike said.

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ieasy

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thank you, the use or non-use of the hypens are pretty confusing in English gramar.
 

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what about "multi-layered" or "multilayered" :) or "eye-liner" or "eyeliner" thank you dudes
 

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what about "multi-layered" or "multilayered" :) or "eye-liner" or "eyeliner" thank you dudes
multilayered
eyeliner
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