English punctuation
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As you can probably see from our title, in most cases mother-in-law is indeed hyphenated. It is a hyphenated compound noun (i.e. two nouns together for the one entity). This means all compound nouns are hyphenated, right? If only it were so simple. The rules for compound nouns and hyphens use an erratic logic...