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In an artcle that appeared
in a 1948 newspaper, the following hypenated words appeared. It was the year I
left school. I am interested to know when hyphenating words are justified. In
many cases keeping the words separately does not alter the sense of the
sentence. The ones marked with an * can certainly be kept apart. Instead of
whole-time one would probably write, "whole of the time", hence one can say it
is a short cut (notice I did not hyphenate this word.) I wonder what Patricia or
Carl has to say, or all the other language gurus and professors.
full-bodied
*bee-keeper *South-West (refers to the previous name of Nambibia) *honey-conscious side-line whole-time By the way, I wrote previously that the mouse
does not work under XP but after using a batch macro at the c: prompt, it does
work in the full screen .
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