Hello ladies, I'm taking advantage of Vesper's nap to write this. Today , my husband Sam came home from a gig and informed me that his sister Lillie is getting married on very short notice. The wedding is in six weeks . Lillie's fiance is

Hello ladies, I'm taking advantage of Vesper's napping to write this. Today my husband Sam came home from a gig and informed me that his sister Lillie is getting married, very short notice. The wedding is in six weeks Lillie's fiance

1) "dashing" is an adjective here (for meaning, see http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dashing ). I suppose the word was originally related to the verb "to dash" (of which "dashed" is the past tense), but the

Hello Mavix and welcome to the forum. I, on the other hand, wouldn't put a comma, because your sentence is short and its structure is immediately apparent. I think the sentence is entirely correct but rather strange: if you are the best man,

Subject: Re: Supermarket lang & lit From: "Raymond S. Wise" In my way of doing hyphens, I'd prefer Campbell's Select Italian-Style-Wedding-Ready-To-Serve Soup. OK, it's excessive, but so is the title of the soup. Well,

The one which I chose caught my eye because of its unusual name: "Campbell's Select Italian-Style Wedding Ready to Serve Soup"! In my way of doing hyphens, I'd prefer Campbell's Select Italian-Style-Wedding-Ready-To-Serve

If the soup is like that consumed at Italian weddings, wouldn't "Italian Wedding Style" be better? Agreed, and it resolves the problem of where to put the hyphens (Italian-Wedding-Style Ready-to-Serve Soup). An early reaction of mine

Where else would you have wanted one? "Wedding-Ready"? In my way of doing hyphens, I'd prefer Campbell's Select Italian-Style-Wedding-Ready-To-Serve Soup. OK, it's excessive, but so is the title of the soup. I dreamed about

You need a lot of sodium on your meatballs when ... put a hyphen between "Italian" and "Style" but nowhere else. Where else would you have wanted one? "Wedding-Ready"? If the soup is like that consumed at Italian

From The San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Febr 2004 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/17/state1932EST0125.DTL SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Two judges delayed taking any action Tuesday to shut down San Francisco's same-sex