BOS frowns on hyphens anymore, however
Posted By: JT on 2009-04-29
In Reply to: Hyphens - Sherlyn
Subject: BOS frowns on hyphens anymore, however
it does not even look like a real word without the hyphen. I would hyphenate it.
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We were told not to use hyphens with African-American, Latin-American, etc. any longer.
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 African-American, 32-year-old, bright-red-blood, any hard and fast rules on these?
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It's a simple rule of English concerning compound adjectives. From The New St. Martin's Handbook (of English usage), "Often you will use adjectives made up of word combinations that are not listed in the dictationary. The guiding principle then is to hyphenate most compound adjectives that precede a noun but not those that follow a noun." Thus "5-French catheter" but "upsized to 5 French."
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"Non-ill" is not a word. No hyphens necessary here. Change to: Not ill appearing.
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Don't know the med, but no hyphens in every other day. nm
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no hyphens
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That is funny because I was taught this by someone that had 15 years experience. I guess we learn all different ways to do things. Thanks for the word help.
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post-arthroscopic surgery or post-arthroscopic-surgery? TIA?
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Thanks, but I thought "post" in the medical realm is a prefix and should be attached with a hyphen I guess.
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Thank. This helps a lot :)
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This is great! What is it from?
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I agree with Michelle. The rule is that any time there are two adjectives describing a noun or three adjectives describing the noun. Example: She was a super-terrific transcription. LOL.
hyphens........sm
Subject: hyphens........sm
I would type it like that:
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Hyphens
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Hey all, I just wanted to check on this in the notes that I am editing right now.
I know that "53-year-old" is hyphenated, but is "53 years old."
I am fairly certain that is isn't, but I want to be sure before I correct the note.
Thanks for any help that is offered. I'm still in school so I haven't learned enough yet. :)
hyphens - none
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thanks!
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Does anyone know of a good place/website to look up hyphenated words .. I get so confused as to when to put a hyphen in or not. I know when it is two adjectives together describing a noun a hyphen goes in but sometimes it's hard to tell .. like in the sentence ... Adjacent soft-tissue swelling is seen and diagnosis of left-deep neck abscess.
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