Canadian Style Tip #19: Points of the compass

This post is part of the Canadian Style series.

2.13 Points of the compass

Write as one word compass directions consisting of two points, but use a hyphen after the first point in those compounds consisting of three points.

  • northwest
  • south-southeast

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