A Hyphen For The Word Miniseries

[nicelander]

Great to see the TV series Chernobyl receive 14 BAFTA nominations but like so many serialised shows these days I keep seeing the word 'miniseries' and read it in my head phoenetically as minizeries. Am I the only person who does this or does it require splitting or a hyphen. Mini Series or Mini-Series ???

[fiction-factory]

I'd put a hyphen in. But then I remember when we used to put one in either to-day or to-morrow, or maybe it was both, when I was at primary school

[maggiebee]

Absolutely agree. I kept looking at the word wondering if it was a word I hadn't heard/used before lol. Should be two words IMO.

[pixie374]

We end up getting used to these words though, like docudrama, sitcom, romcom... they probably all seem strange at first.

[dannyk13]

splitting-mini series

[bednobs]

it's like biopic (is it pronounce bye-opic or Byo Pic?)

[dannyk13]

Google has either miniseries or mini-series.I prefer mini-series

[aelmpvw]

looks clumsily garbled as one word to me

[dannyk13]

To me it looks like a typo.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's an American term and they tend not to use hyphens as much as we do.

They have "coworkers" not "co-workers" and I always read their word as "cow worker".

[nicelander]

Many thanks for your kind replies. I am glad, like me, most would prefer a split or hyphen.

[fiction-factory]

Don't listen to me though on this- I can't justify the one in fiction-factory

[Mozz71]

I thought it was one word: miniseries.

[jno]

there used to be one in street names, like Oxford-street. And to-day, as ff says.

In general I'd say no but you're right, it looks like miseries, and I'm always okay with punctuation that prevents misreadings.

[Gromit]

App designers have to codesign.

In my head I read it for ages as co-design when actually it is pronounced code-sign.

[ABSpareEditor]

I have moved this thread into the category "Media & TV".

[jno]

it's not Media and TV, SpareEd! It's spelling/grammar, whatever topic that comes under. It could just as easily have been about hyphens in lockdown or battlehip.

[dannyk13]

Education would be a better category.At the moment there aren't any posts there.

[ABSpareEditor]

Ah, my mistake. I will pop this in "Arts & Literature".

[jno]

excellent, I will use it to plug my latest book, "The Art of the Hyphen" :-)

[Ellipsis]

> App designers have to codesign.

I believe you can find app designers on experts-exchange.com - which has a hyphen as otherwise you (or at least I) would read it as expert sex change dot com.