RE: hyphen help

Subject: RE: hyphen help
From: "Foster, Willow" <WFoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:39:00 -0500


>From CMS:
Compounds ending in _wide_ are always closed unless long and cumbersome. The
latter are hyphenated before the noun and open after the noun.

Examples:
statewide referendum, worldwide, countywide, university-wide canvass, The
canvass was university wide.

HTH,
Willow

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