Re: Sickness of the hyphen

Subject: Re: Sickness of the hyphen
From: Rick Lanser <rickl -at- SLIP -dot- NET>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 08:34:24 -0500

>Now the hyphen -- there's a much abused and misused bit of punctuation.
>It really seems to be a terminal case, even among tech writers. I
>regularly see compound modifiers left unhyphenated, while other word
>pairs gain needlessly gain a hyphen. Have you noticed?

Yes, I've noticed--and I suspect it's partly due to the lack of an easily
remembered rule for using them. Anyone on the list have one?

Rick

Rick Lanser
Publishing Specialist, Graco Children's Products, Inc.
rickl -at- slip -dot- net


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