documentate!!

[Barbara Need]

>I just got back the copy edited version of a book I'm writing in which the
>copyeditor decided that my use of "in a solicitation to murder case" should
>be changed into a verbal expression, "to solicitate a murder." Obviously I'm
>objecitating to this monstrous change. But maybe that's they way the -ate
>movement is going these days.
>
>Roger Shuy

Would like it better with hyphens: "in a solicitation-to-murder case"?

Barbara