Hyphen use: convention for made-up words with a compound noun or phrase?

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Apologies for the verbosity of the title. Example: "morse code speak". What should be hyphenated and what not?

Facing this, I had informally adopted the practice of enclosing the compound noun/phrase with inverted commas ('), before treating it as one word and adding a hyphen. i.e.

'morse code'-speak
'search engine'-cum-wikipedia
'civilised society'-influenced

edited Nov 04 '20 at 07:44

Andrew Leach

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asked Nov 04 '20 at 04:10

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The second part of this question has been removed as it's already been asked. – Andrew Leach Nov 04 '20 at 07:44
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Does this answer your question? Is it correct to hyphenate with compound premodifiers? If so, where is the hyphen placed? – Lawrence Nov 04 '20 at 13:56

Hyphen use: convention for made-up words with a compound noun or phrase?

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