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Date: | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:46:15 -0500 |
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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:
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>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
[P.S. May I recommend that ATEG configure its server so that instructions
for unsubscribing from the list are appended to each message? Unsubscribe
messages are constantly being sent to the entire list membership.]
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