Actually...

Posted By: BAJournalism on 2005-09-23
In Reply to: Your examples don't end in Y. - What's up with that?

I was giving examples of words which DO get hyphens between them (weight-bearing, etc...). One wouldn't hyphenate, say, "quality minded" or "abnormally appearing" because of the "y" - but maybe thats just in the journalism biz!

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keystrokes ad..can someone tell keystrokes their banner ad needs a hyphen...quality-minded - unless I'm wrong
- Actually they R correct... - BAJournalism
  - Why do you work as an MT if you have a - curious
    - I have written articles. Where do you submit? - DJ
      - E-zines, women and parenting mags, local newspaper. - wanna-be writer
        thanks for this info . . - wannabe
        oops - still wannabee
    - I sold out... - BAJournalism
  - Your examples don't end in Y. - What's up with that?
    - Actually... - BAJournalism
      - BAJournalism, you might want to see if - MAJournalism
      - Oh, I see that now. - thanks :)
  - But isn't quality a noun - not an adverb?
    - Well, in J-school... - BAJournalism
- You're right. I just emailed the office but I think that the - KS MT
  - Can you say ANAL RETENTIVE? Don't you have something more important to be - concerned about than sm

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