Why listen to him? With regards to hyphens, he put out a style guide that is incorrect. People will think they are correct because of who he is. It's a bit like those lazy journos referring to wikipaedia for facts. They're presume it's correct because of what it is.

TBH after that borderline-iliterate drivel, I'm more inclined to accept grammar lessons from tb

Why. Will he put a full stop at the end of your sentence? I'm not the one writing style guides matey.



Ah, there you are. Jostling for a position of superiority over posters again.

How superior you must feel. Must be hard.

What I want to know is whether or not the OP has an inferiority complex (which would not be difficult to understand), given he does not use a capital "B." Does that mean he does not consider himself "proper", like what his literacy isn't, innit?

The best response is to challenge right back.
There is a widespread view, in the South East, that anyone who speaks with an accent that is not a South-Eastern accent, is thought of as someone "with an accent".
The approriate challenge is to respond that, yes, of course one has an accent, but so does everyone.
This does not often go down well but hey-ho.

Worse than challenge are the infrequent but ill-advised attempts to mimic one's accent, especially when they get it so wrong.

Although most of us will know accents we like and accents we don't, no accent is intrinsically better than any other.
Also I think that, these days, the notion that a South-Eastern accent is to "speak nicely" is waning, thank goodness.