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HIGH-TECH OR HI-TEC?

high-tech or hi-tec?

Both spellings are correct for the adjective derived

from high technology:

A HI-TEC factory

A HIGH-TECH computer system

Without the hyphen, each word can be used as a

noun replacing 'high technology':

A generation familiar with HIGH TECH

The latest development in HI TEC

hindrance

(not hinderance)

hippopotamus (singular) hippopotami or

hippopotamuses (plural)

See FOREIGN PLURALS.

historic or historical?

HISTORIC means famous in history, memorable, or

likely to go down in recorded history:

a HISTORIC meeting

HISTORICAL means existing in the past or

representing something that could have happened in

the past:

a HISTORICAL novel

a HISTORICAL fact

Note It would not be wrong to say or write an

historic meeting, an historical novel, an historical

fact. However, this usage of an before words like

hotel, historic and historical is becoming much less

common, now that the h beginning these words is

usually voiced.

hoard or horde?

To HOARD is to save something in a secret place.

A HOARD is a secret store.

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