Hyphenating "urinary bladder stones"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 14 21:33:24 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I wouldn't have hyphenated "you-all"


Why not? I would have. What other way is there to spell it to get the
required meaning? This has been the usual way of spelling it for at least
the past century.


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