to video chat (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Ronald Butters]

I don't think so. It is a compound word, not merely a set of words connected by the often-discussed-here hyphen.

On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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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" "?
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> 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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