Talk:Ad-hoc

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Wikipedia editors are not beholden to Wiktionary. Senator2029 “Talk” 22:15, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Then use a different dictionary, or check to confirm it flatlines on the Google Ngram. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:35, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * More than being an alternative, this spelling is incorrect. Hyphens as punctuation do not exist in the Latin language.  As editors of an important reference work, we should not pretend otherwise. As your own Google search shows, by a ratio of 8:1, the phrase is correctly used without the hyphen.  The fact that a small minority of people do something does not make it legitimate.  Senator2029 “Talk”  00:00, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, I see from the article that style guides differ on whether the words should be put in italics; perhaps some are using a hyphen as an alternative to italics. There are 9 articles linking to "Ad-hoc" – feel free to fix them. I'd still prefer though, that you don't force borderline stuff like this into the high-prority misspellings work queue, as stuff like this bumps up against more serious issues. wbm1058 (talk) 00:31, 14 December 2019 (UTC)