In article ,
Will Hand writes:
Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?

According to my Concise Oxford, yes it should. So should "north-east"
and "north-eastward(s)". But not - oddly enough - "northeaster", meaning
a north-east wind.
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John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)