In derivations with the suffix -loos, we don’t write a between-n between the root and the suffix: interestless, indecisive, carefree, limitless, and so on. The spelling for free is therefore incorrect according to the official language rules. Because the word with between -n occurs frequently, it can easily be defended as an alternative spelling.
Social Media Policy
Funny to report: even the free Microsoft 1000 Mobile Phone Numbers Word spell checker sees the correct spelling as wrong! You generally write compositions together in Dutch. Yet many write this word with a space/spaces or with a hyphen (social media policy, social media policy, social media policy). Although this is incorrect according to the official spelling, there is something to said for using the hyphen: it increases readability.
We conjugate a verb of English origin as if it were an original Dutch verb. We write the trunk in the same way as in English: save (seev), save, savede, saved and therefore also update (updeet), update, updated, updated . You can get around this difficulty by simply using a synonym like updated or upgraded .
Facebook account special
What is is that Facebook itself spells this word incorrectly! As with the word social media policy (see number 8) here too, against the official language rules, you can choose to use the hyphen to increase readability.
You write a between-n if the left part of the compound. Word (which consists of two words) is a noun that ends in ‘ and’ . You also. Write a between-n if the first part of a compound is a noun that ends in ‘ en’ in the plural . Note that there are many exceptions to these rules (for example , briefcase. Because the plural of deed can be both deeds and deeds ).
