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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (834)	1/21/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) of 4710

Jack, I don't think it ever was acceptable or correct to use an apostrophe with the hyphenated eponymous words. I know that I never did, and I never saw an apostrophe so used in printed reference sources. I didn't think for a nanosecond that you personally thought alright was all right. I knew you meant that some wigged-out, new-age grammar source had placed a seal of approval on this . . . whatever . . . use. Please be assured that we no longer have to bother ourselves with keeping "x-ray" straight, because now it is always to be written as "x-ray," no matter the context. Of course, if it is the first word in a sentence, it is written as "X-ray," with a capital "X." Holly

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