As per the title, is the proper usage “ongoing” or “on-going” when writing something such as ongoing research projects?
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As per the title, is the proper usage “ongoing” or “on-going” when writing something such as ongoing research projects?
Either is acceptable, though the form ongoing is almost uniquely the one used in modern times. (The hyphenated version, as with most compound words in English, was the original form; the hyphen got dropped after time as the word became more common.)as
The Online Etymology Dictionary gives the following origin:
ongoing
also on-going, 1877, from on + going (see go).