I know the rules in Chicago Manual, etc. for using hyphens with prefixes (generally it's not done, except for certain circumstances). However, there is a context I have not seen addressed anywhere. When you have a compound term like

Vctory: Here is a site that has analyzed words by frequency of use and posted many lists for study. There is an American English and British English list. http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/l/ The related words you listed all have

We already often informally use 'k' (kilo) for 1000, and, ... clearly-defined meanings and so there is no risk of confusion. Well, the "informal" use of K for 1000 very neatly

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with ... come up with another example of a fully conjugable verb that } isn't usable in all of its tenses? "Ought"? How

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be }> accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary

In reading a book about native American languages, I came across two lovely kinship words. The first, from Apache, is ... relatives. I was wondering if anybody knows some interestiong kinship words in various languages that do not exist in

The American system's prefixes indicate how many groups of three zeroes there are (not counting the first). The old (pre-1974) ... to the old British system in 1961. And the rest of Europe...Oy! Anyone know what the official EU usage is? Like

(snip) The American system's prefixes indicate how many groups of three zeroes there are (not counting the first). The old (pre-1974) British system's prefixes indicate the power of 1,000,000 the number equals. The American system came

Phonetic spelling as in subject... I was watching a BBC programme on Edward Hopper, which relied strongly on an interview ... this is it found in some carefully-delineated dialect of artistic America, or is it perhaps just one man's

dcw filted: I recently heard "nanOMetre" for the first time. It's the one just larger than that that's the problem: "MICrometer" is a unit of distance; "miCROMeter" is a device ... that silly Frenchy spelling