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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> This word should be hyphenated: "video-chat"!
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Should that not be "These words should be hyphenated: "video-chat" "?

I'm not trying to be snarky by asking, I really don't know.  If you take
two words and hyphenate them into a unit, is that unit a single
hyphenated word, or two hyphenated words?

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