Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon

[Amy West]

On 6/3/11 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:53:38 -0400
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon
>
> High-school kids.  Major-league baseball (before it was trademarked).
> African-American vernacular English.
>
> JL

Yeah, but I think according to Chicago Manual of Style, what it should
be is:

Keyser Soeze<ndash>phenomenon

Because the first element is an open compound, because as pointed out,
it's a first-last name combo, not a last-last name combo.

(see CMS 15, 6.85)

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