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Guest  +  16315 Thu, 18 Dec 03 05:39 PM
*I've got several of these hyphen in a series kinds of things, and I've not been able to find the definitive word on this stuff.

+hyphen after 40 or not? "for their tottery 40- and 50-year-old parents . . ."

+hyphen after self or not? "Had the brokenhearted father been one of the self- or demon-deluded pagans . . ."

+hyphen after third and fourth or not? "Maybe big boys--you know, those third-, fourth-, or fifth-grade boys, or even those sixth-grade pseudo-gods . . ."

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