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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (746)1/19/1998 7:13:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4710
 
Applying precedence, which is probably the wrong approach since we're talking about English:

home improvement; yes
home-improvement; no

therefore: self improvement.

-MrB



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (746)1/19/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4710
 
Alex,

Great question, and you've got me. I ask myself over and over again about hyphenation and admit to being very inconsistent. I'll try to research it a bit. I think the Brits tend to do it more than we do.

Jack



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (746)1/20/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: Biggie Smalls  Respond to of 4710
 
here's an answer from A Punctuation Handbook by McCaskill at NASA
( sti.larc.nasa.gov )

Hyphens are always required with the following prefixes:

all-
quasi-
half-
self-
quarter-
hex-


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