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Re: punctuation et al. rules

Subject: Re: punctuation et al. rules
From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:06:28 -0500

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:02:58 -0500, Ed <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

Ken,
Tell Marine that Navy does not use the hyphen. Then he'll want to use it.

(Splzzpft! Now wiping sprayed breakfast off screen.)

Seriously, there may be no best answer for him. Give him example of 1 pin
connector. Without hyphen it causes problems for reader.

Or ask him how to specify 7 pin connectors without specifying seven "pin connectors."

We are heading into mongoose territory here. "Send me a mongoose. While you are at it, send me six more of them."
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punctuation et al. rules: From: Ken Poshedly
Re: punctuation et al. rules: From: Ed

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