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Subject:Chicago Manual of Style & Hyphens From:Harold Snyder <ENSNYDER -at- ECUVM1 -dot- BITNET> Date:Tue, 30 May 1995 08:06:09 EDT
Oft times, when we haste to post a message on the list, we neglect to
check the entirity of a source. Such was the example I used last week
when I said that _The Chicago Manual of Style_ (14th ed.) was of little
help in determining one word/two words/hyphenated word.
Jack Shaw mentioned that Chicago's 13th ed. (pp. 176-81) has a table that
helpful. Since I'd only recently obtained the 14th edition, I wasn't
familiar with the changes and relied heavily on the index (which lists
paragraph numbers). Indeed, Table 6.1 "Spelling Guide for Compound Words
and Words with Prefixes and Suffixes" (pp. 219-31) is an improvement (over
13th ed.). On the ohter hand, the Brooks and Pinson book (_Working with
Words_) lists only the words, and doesn't involve itself with explanations
and rules like _Chicago_ does.
Regards,
Hal
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