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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (800)	1/20/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Try stray peeves&#151they're more appreciative, yet independently durable. >>&#133desperately seeking a synonym for "pet peeve" -MrB

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (800)	1/21/1998 5:50:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Holly, I agree with your points,but I must confess Ididn't know the rules for hyphenation of X-ray/X ray. I remember that Roentgen called those new rays "X-Strahlen", but now I can't visualize whether or not he used the apostrophe. I also wasn't aware of the current lack of the possessive apostrophe with those many eponymous diseases. I can't imagine why one would not want to do so. We say Clark's level (melanoma) and Duke's III (colon Ca). Wegener's granulomatosis comes to mind. Compound eponyms seem to omit the apostrophe: deToni-Fanconi syndrome, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease,but these are hyphenated. I'll have to look for errors in this regard and correct them! Thanks for enlightening me. Jack