Fully-Fledged Vs. Full-Fledged

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Feebs11

#494740 Mon, 31 Mar 08 01:38 AM

Edit. Feebs, We use a hyphen on this side. I notice you did not. Is that typical?

As a rule, an adverb is not followed by a hyphen in a phrase of this kind, whereas an adjective is. So full-fledged and fully fledged; full-blown and fully blown, close-knit and closely knit. It is a frequently broken rule these days. Wink

"Full-fledged" is not a term I have met save in descriptions of young birds. The examples in the British National Corpus are all from newspaper reports and most are not particularly good English.

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Hoa Thai

#494757 Mon, 31 Mar 08 02:35 AM

Hi,

From my Google-search through servers in Vietnam, I found the following results:

site:bbc.co.uk “full-fledged” - 496 từ bbc.co.uk cho "full-fledged". (0,02 giây)

site:bbc.co.uk “fully fledged” - 3.840 từ bbc.co.uk cho "fully fledged". (0,02 giây)

site:nytimes.com “full-fledged” - 48.900 từ nytimes.com cho "full-fledged". (0,20 giây)

site:nytimes.com “fully fledged” - 650 từ nytimes.com cho "fully fledged". (0,35 giây)

Hoa Thai

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Best Regards - Hoa Thai

Avangi

#494768 Mon, 31 Mar 08 03:57 AM

Thanks, Hoa, I'll credit you with an assist. (basketball / hockey / etc.)

Best wishes, my friend - A.

Feebs, Many thanks for shedding light on this rather interesting example of what Marius calls "pondial[ism]."

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