[Ads-l] to coalition-build

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But becausesuch formations are more syntactical than lexical, she naturally
> didn't say the hyphen.
>

Thanks for the clarification! I've been wondering whether inserting the
hyphen was the right thing to do.


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