julielai  +  423654 Wed, 26 Sep 07 04:52 AM http://www.reuters.com/article/email...070921?sp=true julielai Joined on Sun, Oct 24 2004 Senior Member 3,827 Just another blogger (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/julie-lai) Articles, Hyphens

	Mister Micawber  +  423747 Wed, 26 Sep 07 09:16 AM Oops-- Reuters can't find your page anymore. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,822 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

	julielai  +  423820 Wed, 26 Sep 07 12:58 PM This should work: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/od_nm/britain_hyphen1_dc_1 julielai

	Mister Micawber  +  423822 Wed, 26 Sep 07 01:09 PM Great, thanks. OK-- I've got 'em memorized. Mister Micawber

	Cool Breeze  +  423895 Wed, 26 Sep 07 03:56 PM Thanks, Julielai. Over the years, I have got the impression that in countless cases it makes little difference whether you hyphenate an English word or not: tea-cup, teacup and tea cup are all used. When reading the article, I noticed that the writer still writes old-fashioned,  not oldfashioned. CB Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,979 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991 Articles, Hyphens

	CalifJim  +  424588 Fri, 28 Sep 07 03:19 AM That's just great.   Now we have to memorize which ones ended up as two words and which as one.  CJ CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,447 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche Hyphens

	English Toolbox Co.  +  424869 Fri, 28 Sep 07 06:59 PM It's one thing to drop hyphens from compound nouns, and quite another to drop them from compound adjectives.  This can result in confusion (e.g., is he a Japanese art student or a Japanese-art student?).  The question is whether you can drop the hyphen when the compound adjective doesn't precede a noun: e.g., "He's an old-fashioned man" vs. "He's old-fashioned/He's old fashioned."  I think most writers would prefer to keep the hyphen in both cases, but I increasingly see it being dropped when there's no explicit noun being modified. English Toolbox... Joined on Thu, Aug 16 2007 New Member 41 Happy Teaching! The English Toolbox Co. Staff Nouns, Hyphens