At 08:52 AM 10/17/97 -0400, Brenda S. Campbell wrote:
>I had a doozy of a fight with my English professor last night.
 
Dear Brenda:
 
You're right; he's wrong. I fight with my students constantly about
hyphenation of compound adjectives  (and with the clients whom I serve as a
freelance editor), but the rule is the rule. The one source I can reliably
use when I need to say "SEE!" is *The New Yorker,* perhaps the last bastion
of the firm rule of always hyphenating those compounds. (Imagine the
struggles I had working once for a non-profit law firm when I wanted to
hyphenate "sexual-harassment suit."
 
Wendell
 
 
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