Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (745)	1/20/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

I was just hoping to find an excuse for my error, but noooooo-you wouldn't let me get away with it. Regarding the hyphen, my reference book, which is the one used in the schools, says this: A hyphen is used to create new words beginning with the prefixes self, ex, all, great, etc. I also pulled out my battered Harbrace's and found this which makes great sense to me: Hyphenate words chiefly to express the idea of a unit or to avoid ambiguity. A hyphenated word may be either two words still in the process of becoming one word or a compound form coined by the writer to fit the occasion. I found the idea of a word in gestation charming: first the two separate words, then the hyphen as they get to know each other, then union- when the two are joined by God and become as one. Isn't that romantic?