Die SOK empfiehlt, bei der Schreibweise von mehrgliedrigen englischen Fügungen, bei denen mehrere Varianten bestehen, grundsätzlich die vom Rechtschreib-Duden empfohlene zu verwenden (z. B. Callcenter, Cruise-Missile, Motocross, Shareholder-Value). Ausnahmen z. B.: Air-Condition[ing], Boat-People, Dinner-Jacket, Discount-Broker, Diskjockey/Discjockey (Duden empfiehlt Discjockey, SOK: keine Empfehlung), Fund-Raising, Junk-Food, Live-Act, Live-Show, Mountain-Bike (Duden nur: Mountainbike), Pole-Position, Riverboat-Shuffle, Sightseeing-Tour, Think-Tank, Tie-Break; Black Jack, Blue Chip, Cold Cream, Dark Room, Fairplay, Flat Rate, Free Climbing, Hard Disk (Duden empfiehlt Harddisk), Hard Rock, Odd Fellow, Prime Time, Real Time, Soft Copy, Soft Drink, Soft Rock; Crossover, Fall-out, Hand-out, Playback; Ready-made.
In einigen Fällen empfiehlt die SOK eine vom Rechtschreib- bzw. Fremdwörter-Duden bzw. von der Regelung 06 abweichende Schreibweise, z. B.: Audience-Flow, Body-Painting, Candlelight-Dinner, Country-Music, Drag Queen, Emmy-Award, Gender-Studies, Hedge-Fund, Love Parade, Mass-Action, Mass-Reaction, Micky Mouse, Online-…, Online-Broker, Page-Impression, Patchwork-…, Player Roll, Porterhouse-Steak, Soil Erosion, Tea-Room, Traveler’s Check, Window-Dressing, Window-Shopping; American way of life, Blue Jeans, Firstclass-…, Prepaid Card, Prepaid Handy, Quickstep, Short Track, Upper Class; Business as usual, Onestep, Outsider-…, Twostep.
In zahlreichen, im Rechtschreib- oder Fremdwörter-Duden nicht oder nicht mehr aufgeführten Fällen empfiehlt die SOK bestimmte Schreibweisen (siehe Wörterlisten), z. B.: Cashdrain, Dotcom-…, Drag King, Image-Design, Inflight-Service, Key Account, Key Feature, Live-Stream, Minimum-Lending-Rate, Player Roll, Price-Earnings-Ratio, Return on Equity, Ryder-Cup, Stakeholder-Value, Starfighter, Street Parade, Wall-Street-…, West Bank (Westjordanien), Workload; Big Four, Fast Track, Firstclass, die, French Open, Frequent Flyer, Grand Old Party (Rep. Partei USA), Multiple Choice, Open End, Open Sky, Open-Sky-…, Underground-…, Unique Client, Unique Visitor, Working Poor; President-elect, Swiss made.
Adjektiv-Substantiv
| herkömmliche Rechtschreibung | neue Rechtschreibung | Empfehlung SOK |
| n/a | Acidhouse / Acid House | Acid House |
| n/a | Added Values | Added Values |
| American Bar | American Bar | American Bar |
| n/a | American Dream | American Dream |
| American Football | American Football | American Football |
| American way of life | American Way of life | American way of life |
| Angry young man | Angry Young Man | Angry Young Man |
| n/a | Australian Open | Australian Open |
| Autoreverse | Autoreverse | Autoreverse |
| Bad Trip | Badtrip / Bad Trip | Bad Trip |
| n/a | Baggy Pants / Baggypants | Baggy Pants |
| Big Band | Bigband / Big Band | Big Band |
| n/a | Bigbang / Big Bang | Big Bang |
| Big Ben | Big Ben | Big Ben |
| n/a | Big Brother | Big Brother |
| Big Business | Big Business | Big Business |
| n/a | n/a | Big Four |
| n/a | Big Point (Tennis) / Bigpoint (Tennis) | Big Point (Tennis) |
| n/a | Bitter Lemon / Bitterlemon | Bitter Lemon |
| n/a | Blackhole / Black Hole | Black Hole |
| Black Jack | Blackjack / Black Jack | Black Jack |
| Blackmail | Blackmail / Black Mail | Black Mail |
| Black Panther | Blackpanther / Black Panther | Black Panther |
| Black Power | Black Power | Black Power |
| Black tongue | Blacktongue / Black Tongue | Black Tongue |
| Blackband | Blackband | Blackband |
| Black-Bottom | Blackbottom / Black Bottom | Blackbottom |
| Black box | Blackbox / Black Box | Blackbox |
| Blinddate / Blind Date | Blind Date | Blind Date |
| Blue baby | Bluebaby / Blue Baby | Blue Baby |
| Blue chip | Bluechip / Blue Chip | Blue Chip |
| Bluejeans / Blue jeans | Bluejeans | Blue Jeans |
| Blue notes | Bluenotes / Blue Notes | Blue Notes |
| Blue box | Bluebox / Blue Box | Bluebox |
| Blue Movie | Bluemovie / Blue Movie | BlueMovie |
| n/a | Bookmark | Bookmark |
| Closed Shop | Closedshop / Closed Shop | Closed Shop |
| Cold Cream | Coldcream / Cold Cream | Cold Cream |
| Cold Rubber | Coldrubber / Cold Rubber | Cold Rubber |
| Comic strip | Comicstrip | Comicstrip |
| Common Law | Common Law | Common Law |
| Common sense | Commonsense / Common Sense | Common Sense |
| Compact Disc | Compact Disc / Compact Disk | Compact Disk / Compact Disk |
| Cool Jazz | Cool Jazz | Cool Jazz |
| Corned beef | Cornedbeef / Corned Beef | Corned Beef |
| Corned pork | Cornedpork / Corned Pork | Corned Pork |
| Corporate identity | Corporate Identity | Corporate Identity |
| n/a | Darkroom / Dark Room | Dark Room |
| Displaced person | Displaced Person | Displaced Person |
| Double-bind | Doublebind / Double Bind | Double Bind |
| Dumb show | Dumbshow / Dumb-Show | Dumb-Show |
| Early English | Early English | Early English |
| n/a | Easy Listening | Easy Listening |
| n/a | Easy Living | Easy Living |
| Easy-rider | Easy Rider | Easy Rider |
| n/a | Elderstatesman / Elder Statesman | Elder Statesman |
| n/a | Electricjazz / Electric Jazz | Electric Jazz |
| n/a | Electronic Banking | Electronic Banking |
| n/a | Electronic Book | Electronic Book |
| n/a | Electronic Business | Electronic Business |
| n/a | Electronic Cash | Electronic Cash |
| n/a | Electronic Church | Electronic Church |
| n/a | Electronic Commerce | Electronic Commerce |
| n/a | Electronic Mail | Electronic Mail |
| n/a | Electronic Shopping | Electronic Shopping |
| Fair play | Fairplay / Fair Play | Fairplay |
| Fashionable novel | Fashionable Novel | Fashionable Novel |
| Fast food | Fastfood / Fast Food | Fast Food |
| n/a | n/a | Fast Track |
| n/a | first class | first class |
| First Lady | First Lady | First Lady |
| n/a | n/a | Firstclass, die |
| First-class-… | First-Class-… | Firstclass-… |
| n/a | Flatrate / Flate Rate | Flate Rate |
| Floppy disk | Floppy Disk / Floppy Disc / Floppydisk | Floppy Disk / Floppy Disc |
| Foreign Office | Foreign Office | Foreign Office |
| n/a | Freecall / Free Call | Free Call |
| n/a | Freeclimber / Free Climber | Free Climber |
| Free climbing | Freeclimbing / Free Climbing | Free Climbing |
| n/a | Freeconcert / Free Concert | Free Concert |
| n/a | Freefloat / Free Float | Free Float |
| n/a | Freeflow / Free Flow | Free Flow |
| Free Jazz | Freejazz / Free Jazz | Free Jazz |
| n/a | Freehold | Freehold |
| n/a | Freestyle | Freestyle |
| n/a | n/a | French Open |
| n/a | n/a | Frequent Flyer |
| Full dress | Fulldress / Full Dress | Full Dress |
| Full house | Fullhouse / Full House | Full House |
| Full Service | Fullservice / Full Service | Full Service |
| Full speed | Fullspeed / Full Speed | Full Speed |
| Full-time-… | Fulltime… / Full-Time-… | Full-Time-… |
| n/a | Functional Food | Functional Food |
| Golden Delicious | Golden Delicious | Golden Delicious |
| n/a | Golden Goal | Golden Goal |
| Golden Twenties | Golden Twenties | Golden Twenties |
| Grand Fleet | Grand Fleet | Grand Fleet |
| n/a | Grand Jury | Grand Jury |
| n/a | Grandmal / Grand Mal | Grand Mal |
| Grand Old Lady | Grand Old Lady | Grand Old Lady |
| Grand Old Man | Grand Old Man | Grand Old Man |
| n/a | n/a | Grand Old Party (Rep. Partei USA) |
| Grand Slam | Grand Slam | Grand Slam |
| Happy-End | Happyend / Happy End | Happy End |
| n/a | Happy Hour | Happy Hour |
| Hardbop | Hardbop / Hard Bop | Hard Bop |
| n/a | Harddisk / Hard Disk / Harddisc / Hard Disc | Hard Disk / Hard Disc |
| Hard Drink | Harddrink / Hard Drink | Hard Drink |
| n/a | Harddrug / Hard Drug | Hard Drug |
| Hard Rock | Hardrock / Hard Rock | Hard Rock |
| n/a | Hard Skill | Hard Skill |
| Hard word | Hardword / Hard Word | Hard Word |
| Hardcore | Hardcore | Hardcore |
| Hard cover | Hardcover | Hardcover |
| Hard edge | Hardedge | Hardedge |
| Hardliner | Hardliner | Hardliner |
| Hard selling | Hardselling | Hardselling |
| Hard stuff | Hardstuff | Hardstuff |
| Hardtop | Hardtop | Hardtop |
| Hardware | Hardware | Hardware |
| Heavy metal | Heavy Metal | Heavy Metal |
| High-Church | High Church | High Church |
| n/a | High End | High End |
| n/a | High-End- | High-End- |
| High-Fidelity | High Fidelity | High Fidelity |
| n/a | Highheels / High Heels | High Heels |
| High-noon | Highnoon / High Noon | High Noon |
| High-Snobiety | Highsnobiety / High Snobiety | High Snobiety |
| High-Society | High Society | High Society |
| Highball | Highball | Highball |
| Highboard (zufällig getrennt) | Highboard | Highboard |
| High-brow | Highbrow | Highbrow |
| n/a | Highend… / High-End-… | High-End-… |
| Highlife (zufällig getrennt) | Highlife / High Life | Highlife |
| Highlight | Highlight | Highlight |
| High-riser | Highriser / High Riser | Highriser |
| High-School | Highschool | Highschool |
| High-Tech | Hightech | Hightech |
| Highway | Highway | Highway |
| n/a | Homepage | Homepage |
| Hot Jazz | Hot Jazz | Hot Jazz |
| Hot dog | Hotdog / Hot Dog | Hotdog |
| n/a | Hotline | Hotline |
| Hot pants | Hotpants / Hot Pants | Hotpants |
| n/a | Hotspot / Hot Spot | Hotspot |
| n/a | Indian Summer | Indian Summer |
| n/a | Indirect Rule | Indirect Rule |
| Industrial Design | Industrial Design | Industrial Design |
| Industrial Designer | Industrial Designer | Industrial Designer |
| Industrial engineer | Industrial Engineer | Industrial Engineer |
| Industrial engineering | Industrial Engineering | Industrial Engineering |
| Irish coffee | Irish Coffee | Irish Coffee |
| Irish-Stew | Irish Stew | Irish Stew |
| Joint-venture | Joint Venture | Joint Venture |
| Latin Lover | Latinlover / Latin Lover | Latin Lover |
| n/a | Lean Management | Lean Management |
| n/a | Lean Production | Lean Production |
| Longdrink | Longdrink / Long Drink | Longdrink |
| Longseller | Longseller | Longseller |
| Mainstream | Mainstream | Mainstream |
| Matched groups | Matchedgroups / Matched Groups | Matched Groups |
| Minimal art | Minimal Art | Minimal Art |
| Minimal music | Minimal Music | Minimal Music |
| Missing link | Missing Link | Missing Link |
| Mixed drink | Mixeddrink / Mixed Drink | Mixed Drink |
| n/a | Mixed Economy | Mixed Economy |
| Mixed grill | Mixed Grill | Mixed Grill |
| Mixed media | Mixedmedia / Mixed Media | Mixed Media |
| Mixed Pickles | Mixed Pickles / Mixedpickles | Mixed Pickles |
| n/a | n/a | Multiple Choice |
| Multiple-choice-… | Multiple-Choice-… | Multiple-Choice-… |
| New Age | New Age | New Age |
| New Deal | New Deal | New Deal |
| n/a | New Economy | New Economy |
| New Look | New Look | New Look |
| New Wave | New Wave | New Wave |
| Newcomer | Newcomer | Newcomer |
| Nordic Walking | Nordic Walking | Nordic Walking |
| n/a | Nordicwalking / Nordic Walking | Nordic Walking |
| n/a | Novelfood / Novel Food | Novel Food |
| Odd Fellow / Oddfellow | Odd Fellow / Oddfellow | Odd Fellow |
| n/a | Old Economy | Old Economy |
| Oldtimer | Oldtimer | Oldtimer |
| Open air | Open Air | Open Air |
| n/a | open end | open end |
| n/a | n/a | Open End |
| n/a | n/a | Open Sky |
| n/a | Open Source | Open Source |
| Open-air… | Open-Air-… | Open-Air-… |
| Open-end-… | Open-End-… | Open-End-… |
| n/a | n/a | Open-Sky-… |
| n/a | Open-Source-… | Open-Source-… |
| n/a | Oval Office | Oval Office |
| Paying guest | Paying Guest | Paying Guest |
| Personalcomputer | Personal Computer | Personal Computer |
| n/a | Political Correctness | Political Correctness |
| n/a | Prepaidkarte | Prepaid Card |
| n/a | Prepaidhandy | Prepaid Handy |
| Prime rate | Primerate / Prime Rate | Prime Rate |
| n/a | Primetime / Prime Time | Prime Time |
| Progressive Jazz | Progressive Jazz | Progressive Jazz |
| Public Relations (Abk. PR) | Public Relations (Abk. PR) | Public Relations (Abk. PR) |
| Quickstep | Quickstepp | Quickstep |
| n/a | Realtime / Real Time | Real Time |
| Round-table-… | Round Table | Round Table |
| Running Gag | Running Gag | Running Gag |
| Safer Sex | Safer Sex | Safer Sex |
| Shooting-Star | Shootingstar | Shootingstar |
| Short story | Shortstory / Short Story | Short Story |
| n/a | Shorttrack | Short Track |
| Silent meeting | Silentmeeting / Silent Meeting | Silent Meeting |
| Six Days | Six Days / Sixdays | Six Days |
| Sliding-tackling | Sliding Tackling | Sliding Tackling |
| n/a | Slowfood / Slow Food | Slow Food |
| n/a | Slow Motion | Slow Motion |
| Slowfox | Slowfox | Slowfox |
| Small Band | Smallband / Small Band | Small Band |
| n/a | Smallcap / Small Cap | Small Cap |
| Small talk | Smalltalk / Small Talk | Small Talk |
| n/a | Smartphone / Smart Phone | Smartphone |
| n/a | Softcopy / Soft Copy | Soft Copy |
| Soft Drink | Softdrink / Soft Drink | Soft Drink |
| #REF! | #REF! | #REF! |
| Soft drug | Softdrug / Soft Drug | Soft Drug |
| Soft Rock | Softrock / Soft Rock | Soft Rock |
| n/a | Soft Skill | Soft Skill |
| Softball | Softball | Softball |
| Software (zufällig getrennt) | Software | Software |
| Soil erosion | Soilerosion | Soilerosion |
| Splendid isolation | Splendid Isolation | Splendid Isolation |
| Standing ovations | Standing Ovations | Standing Ovations |
| Statute Law | Statute Law | Statute Law |
| n/a | Steady State | Steady State |
| Sudden death | Sudden Death | Sudden Death |
| Top ten | Top Ten | Top Ten |
| n/a | n/a | Topshot |
| Underground | Underground | Underground |
| n/a | n/a | Underground-… |
| n/a | n/a | Unique Client |
| n/a | n/a | Unique Visitor |
| Upperclass | Upperclass | Upper Class |
| Upper ten | Upperten / Upper Ten | Upper Ten |
| Uppercut | Uppercut | Uppercut |
| White-collar-… | White-Collar-… | White-Collar-… |
| Wild card | Wildcard / Wild Card | Wildcard |
| n/a | n/a | Working Poor |
| Yellow Press | Yellow Press | Yellow Press |