http://blogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/2008/07/02/a-review-of-new/ Can't get enough words about words with Sunday's newspaper column? Then this blog's for you, my word-craving friend. I work the late shift, so don't look for responses until the next day. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 05:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/2008/07/02/a-review-of-new/#comment-77 Barry Wood Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:56:33 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/2008/07/02/a-review-of-new/#comment-77 This is a biggie. I can't do it justice here, although I will make some attempts down the road (I haven't forgotten the request for my thoughts on "how English ought to be," either). At this point, I'll just say that there's more disagreement about hyphens (and apostrophes) than any other topic. More to come, I promise, but I'm ready to start my three-day holiday (there's a proper use of a hyphen). This is a biggie. I can’t do it justice here, although I will make some attempts down the road (I haven’t forgotten the request for my thoughts on “how English ought to be,” either). At this point, I’ll just say that there’s more disagreement about hyphens (and apostrophes) than any other topic. More to come, I promise, but I’m ready to start my three-day holiday (there’s a proper use of a hyphen).

]]> http://blogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/2008/07/02/a-review-of-new/#comment-73 Send him to Town Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:21:15 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/2008/07/02/a-review-of-new/#comment-73 Can you expound on when to use hyphens when using two-word descriptors in front of nouns, as I just did! Can you expound on when to use hyphens when using two-word descriptors in front of nouns, as I just did!

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