Hyphenating "urinary bladder stones"

[Joel S. Berson]

I was going to address the distinguished members as "youse guys", but ...

None of the four combinations for hyphenating/not hyphenating
"urinary bladder stones" looks/sounds good to me when written/said. I
will have to write "stones of the urinary bladder".   ;-|

Joel

At 7/14/2013 09:12 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Jul 14, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>Well, y'all, sort of, but I agree with your implicit point--that's
>not a different way to spell *it*, given the (sometimes subtle but
>real) differences between "you-all" and "y'all".  The latter
>sometimes represented as "ya'll", but that just seems weird. And
>"you all" sans hyphen doesn't really pick out the second personal plural.
>
>LH
>
> > This has been the usual way of spelling it for at least
> > the past century.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
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