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- Tagalog
- Tajik
- take
- take account of
- take a decision
- take exception to
- take into account
- take into consideration
- take the initiative in
- talk
- Tamil
- tamper with
- taps
- teach
- tele-
- telephone extensions
- telephone numbers: area code
- telephone numbers: country code
- telephone numbers (Linguistic recommendation from the Translation Bureau)
- tell
- temporary reprieve
- tendency
- tend to
- tend towards
- terrible tragedy
- tetra-
- thank you
- thank-you
- that
- that being the case
- the fact that
- the few
- their
- the Lakehead
- the Laurentians
- the manner in which
- thence
- thenceforth
- theo-
- theoretically
- the question as to whether
- there
- thereafter
- thereby
- therefor
- therefore
- therm-
- the same
- the way in which
- they’re
- thousand
- Tibeto-
- till
- time of day
- time period
- toboggan
- too many
- topo-
- Toronto
- Torontonian
- total
- to the extent that
- to the manner born
- to the manor born
- toxi-
- toxico-
- tradition
- tragedy
- trans-
- trend
- tri-
- troop
- troupe
- true and authentic
- true fact
- try and
- try to
- tumble
- Turco‑
- Turcoman
- Turk
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Turko‑
- Twelfth Night
- Twitter terminology (Linguistic recommendation from the Translation Bureau)
- two first
- typical
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thank you, thank-you
The spellings thank you and thank-you are both correct, but they have different uses.
thank you
Without a hyphen, thank you is a verb with a direct object. We use this phrase to show our gratitude to someone:
- Thank you, Alan, for the lovely lawn mower!
- I want to thank you, Ms. Krishna, for your valuable help.
thank-you
With a hyphen, thank-you is either a noun or an adjective. As a noun, it means “a message of thanks”:
- Mark sent Joan a thank-you for the lava lamp she gave him.
As an adjective, thank-you is used before a noun and means “expressing thanks”:
- I received a thank-you card from my stockbroker.
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