Hyphenating "urinary bladder stones"

[Laurence Horn]

More alarming would be stones of the non-urinary bladder.

LH

On Jul 15, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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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>> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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