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shantaram
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: What's the rule with hyphens? |
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| A Korean teacher got me to correct some material and I got confused about hyphens. There should definitely be a hyphen in see-saw, but what about zoo keeper? I started going through the list of words and hyphenated nearly every noun with two words. But I dread being asked why some were hyphenated and some not. Also I don't want to start a hyphenation craze where everything-gets-hyphenated-around-the-school. So what's the rule? |
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cbclark4
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shantaram
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks heaps,
I obviously left my brain at home today or I would have looked on wikipedia before posting here. Thanks again! |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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We all have our dazed and confused times. Hopefully when I have mine someone will help.
cbc |
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Tam Sadek
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Suwon, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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And if you read the Wikipedia entry it begins with...
"A definitive collection of hyphen rules does not exist." |
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ontheway
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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"seesaw"
"zookeeper"
No hyphens. |
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