[WikiEN-l] "Well known"

[Fred Bauder]

> For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage
> books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm convinced
> is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think is
> standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for
> "most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article space.
>
> Charles

Well, both expressions, both with and without hyphen, seem to be in
general use. Now that you've mentioned it, I can't recall which of the
four possibilities I habitually use. Right now "best known" seems best,
but I wouldn't waste one second changing a most well known into a best
known.

Fred