When writing in English I am often told that Thank-You is incorrect.
Contradictory to this many dictionaries have it hyphenated, such as:
My question is which is the correct way?
Thank You
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When writing in English I am often told that Thank-You is incorrect.
Contradictory to this many dictionaries have it hyphenated, such as:
My question is which is the correct way?
Thank You
Best Answer
Ah, I presume you mean you looked up thank-you, which is an existing noun but not the same thing at all as the common idiom thank you.
Merriam-Webster tells us:
Now, the phrase “thank you” is indeed always written without a hyphen.
But when we transform phrases into nouns, we use (often) hyphens to indicate that those words belong together as a set phrase, and together they become a noun:
As with many nouns, we can use thank-you attributively ("as an adjective") to modify another noun: