'scuse...hyphen. nm
Posted By: passing thru again on 2005-07-29
In Reply to: BOS2, pg. 180, don't hyphenate fractions written out and used as nouns, so correct w/o the hypen - this case. nm
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'Scuse me?
Define "well enough" ? I have no idea what you are talking about. Nice response. Thanks.
'Scuse me
But this sounds like a bunch of crap. This is so contrary to what most other experienced MTs would say. What world are you living in? This is not real great advice to be giving a newbie.
..um...'scuse me...who do YOU work for?
If we turned down every mushmouth, speed-demon dictator we got, we would never work. Get a grip!
'scuse me?? Before I get mad, is that some kind of jab?
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'Scuse my yelling...THANK YOU!!! (sm)
  YOU MAY HAVE SOLVED A PROBLEM I'VE HAD FOR OVER A YEAR!!!! No one, not even support, has been able to tell me what was happening. The read only document WAS a split screen with both documents showing, even though my cursor was in the read only document.
I guess I've been a little too quick on the draw, so to speak. I'll have to slow down if reviewing another document. I was certain I'd have to quit my job because of some kind of conflict on my computer.
'Scuse me, but she is QUITTING HER JOB TO GET THE BENEFITS
Maybe in all caps you'll understand it better.
Had she just lost her job and had no money to fund her pregnancy, instead of trying to find a way to STEAL FROM THE SYSTEM, I've no doubt everyone's comments to her would have been MUCH different.
You are comparing apples and oranges with this particular OP's strategy.
did he say hyphen??
is not, i would just put another comman after watery.
with the hyphen
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I think hyphen too. I win bet. Thanks!
no hyphen
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NO hyphen
We took a 2-day vacation. We took 2 days' vacation. We took 2 days of vacation.
We don't use the hyphen where I work
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hyphen words
My Stedman's Orthopaedic and Rehab Words book shows lunotriquetral (one word no hyphen) and scapholunate (one word no hyphen)Spelling on both is a little different than yours.
Hyphen usage in the following
arthroscopic report: crabmeat-appearing cartilage Yes? shovel-like basket forceps ?
Serious question for a hyphen pro
ASR often comes through with a suture stated as 0-Vicryl. I don't think this is correct, as I would not type 2-0-Vicryl but just 2-0 Vicryl or 0 Vicryl. Any opinions?
No hyphen in 0 Vicryl. nm
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hyphen in mid-phalanx
I was just about to make a post about whether or not to put a hyphen in the word mid-phalanx .. saw this post but am still confused as to whether or not to use a hyphen. Please help.
I would type it without a hyphen.....sm
according to the BOS 3, the trend is to minimize the use of hyphens.
even midday does not need a hyphen, and definitely
not midafternoon.
Word is not always a reliable source for correct grammar and punctuation.
Add the nonbreaking hyphen in your entry. sm
Add the nonbreaking space for your other entries.
In MS Word, the shortcuts are: Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen and Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar
no hyphen but Client Profile comes first...SM
Too lengthy to type here - but if you can get to a BOS (Book of Style) it covers hyphens from pages 207-211 in their entirety!! 
Doctors prefer no hyphen.
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cntrl+shift+hyphen
I agree, but drop the hyphen (nm)
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agree... but leave the hyphen in!
either way is correct. They are moving away from the hyphen but it is not incorrect.
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BOS under prefixes says to omit the hyphen in most re- words. But..sm
say to use re-cover (to cover again not recover from surgery) and re-create (not recreate, meaning to play). Or use it if the resulting word will be awkward as in re-x-rayed or re-emphasize or re-introduce. This is on page 330 of BOS II.
But even though it's in print, your QA may still disagree with you. :) nm
Positive the hyphen doesn't go in sm for Vicryl
The zero (0) and one (1) can stand alone. You put a # if the dictate it, not if they don't. 1 Vicryl, or 0 Vicryl is correct, as is 2-0 Vicryl and 3-0 Vicryl and 5-0 Vicryl Rapide (not RePEED) as I had an MT transcribe and who SHOULD have looked this up!
Numbers really can stand alone, as above or in 2 days' time. I had an MT type in 1-day and that is wrong, it is just 1 day or even one day. We are so used to sticking stuff together with hyphens and what not, it seems odd at times, but it is true. I'd rather see a number stuck alone that really needs to be a compound modifier, than see them always as compound modifiers when they are not. This is the most common error I am seeing in QA right now.
drop the hyphen, it is a stand alone, no noun follows.nm
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look up each definition..and it is drug-eluting stent. with hyphen.
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That should be fine except for the hyphen (type 2 is not a compound modifier). nm
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Stedmans has it with NO hyphen; that's how I've been typing for years. NM
I don't know, but the AHDI will probably want to get rid of that hyphen in Fisher-Price to save a
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A hyphen never killed anyone but a left and right error did and I catch plenty of those as the MT.
blah - these aren't rules, they are decisions made by a circle of anal retentive MTs. Dorland's and a grasp of the English land and basic sentence structure all make it happen but a love of medicine is what makes an expert in this field because they follow the doctor's hands, eyes and mind.
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