Re: Microsoft Manual of Style questions

[Richard Mateosian <xrmxrm -at- gmail -dot- com>]

If we don't hyphenate cowboy, we shouldn't hyphenate cow-orker.  ...RM

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Darrell said:

> The style guide we use (that I wrote) calls for "email" but I was thinking
> the other day that when this is extended to "ereader" it doesn't work as
> well as "e-reader". I crave consistency!
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Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- pacbell -dot- net>
Berkeley, California
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