Comments on: Which is correct — long standing or long-standing? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/which-is-correct-long-standing-or-long-standing/ Is your grammar as good as your code? Sun, 26 May 2013 22:18:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: LongPurple http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/which-is-correct-long-standing-or-long-standing/#comment-260 LongPurple Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:41:35 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/which-is-correct-long-standing-or-long-standing/#comment-260 c. none (or neither) of the above

I prefer “longstanding”. Both hyphenated and singleword (or is it “single word”, or “single-word”) formats are found in various dictionaries. The convention in English is a progress over time from two words, to a hyphenated form, and finally a single word compounded from the two; as in “fire fly — fire-fly — firefly”.

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