Re: VP Abbreviation

["Lurker writer" <lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

According to the Handbook of Technical Writing, 3rd edition, "a hyphen is 
used with a prefix when the root word is a proper noun."

A Vice President, seemingly, would be the president of vice (sounds 
interesting...)

A Vice-President is someone and something different altogether.


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