to video chat (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Mitt Romney promises he'll make America "energy-secure."

Same principle, right? The granddaddy of all these forms, in my experience,
was "user-friendly."

JL

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:

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> I don't think so. It is a compound word, not merely a set of words
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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
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