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Subject:Re: Hyphenation of a word: vice-president? From:Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:15:12 -0500
Dick Margulis wrote:
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> In Canada, yes, perhaps. But in the US, where we have a President and a Vice President (caps used when we are writing about people elected to those Federal offices), the word is not hyphenated. The exception is in the formation of a compound adjective, "vice-presidential."
>
Unless we're writing the name of the
president and the vice president, we
don't capitalize it or hyphenate it.
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Bonnie Granat
Technical Writer and Editor
Artisoft, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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