In response to Johanna Rubba's question:

>Is it still 'the rule' to hyphenate multi-word modifiers when they occur
>in front of their heads, but not after it, as in:
>
>The child is six years old.
>The six-year-old child ...

Sure.  There's a big difference between a mad-dog catcher and a mad dog
catcher.

Dick Veit
Dept. of English
University of North Carolina at Wilmington

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