RE: Hopeless question: fund/raising

Subject: RE: Hopeless question: fund/raising
From: "Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
To: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:28:56 -0800

Susan Hogarth wrote:

> 1) Fund raising
>
> 2) Fundraising
>
> 3) Fund-raising
>
> ?????

Susan:

CMS says a "verb + gerund" compounds is usually open when used as a
noun, hyphenated when used as an adjective before a noun, and closed if
it's a permanent compound (i.e., one that the dictionary shows closed).
Other style guides generally agree.

My dictionary shows "fundraising", closed, so that's how I'd set it in
all cases.

-Andrew

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