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To: greenspirit who wrote (30519)	7/1/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We had a discussion on the Grammar thread a long time ago about hyphenated words, but I don't remember when.... I went to Fowler's and found these rules (paraphrased because I'm lazy and this isn't the grammar thread): 1. To join two or more words to form a single expression or to unify the sense of the words 2. To join a prefix to a proper name (anti-Darwinism) 3. To prevent misconceptions (thirty-odd people means something quite different from thirty odd people) 4. To avoid ambiguity (resigns v. re-signs) 5. To separate similar consonant or vowel sounds 6. TO represent a common second element (e.g. two-, three-, or four-fold) But I liked my idea that words meet casually, date, eventually get engaged and finally marry. Like ear ring, ear-ring, earring. A hyphen indicates they're sleeping together but haven't been legally joined yet.