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Thank you, @DavidCrosbie, though, admittedly as an amateur rather than a connoisseur, I take issue with the suggestion that all great red wines are made fro…
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Thank so much for your replies, @DavidCrosbie.
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No takers?
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Are the hyphenated (micro-organisms) and non-hyphenated (microorganisms) versions considered equally acceptable in British English.
The premium Oxford online dictionary gives the non-hyphenated version as its main entry, but then goes on …
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Thank you @joughtred! As you may have seen, I managed to ask again! I'd forgotten about asking here and obviously hadn't seen the answer. Memory lapse!
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Goodness! I forgot that I asked here before about the acceptability of spelling the word as a hyphenated compound! Sorry about that!
Would I be right to think it is more common now to spell it as a closed compound though also in British E…
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Would I be correct in suspecting that there has been a development in time towards increasing use of the closed compound? The examples in the OED, if they are meant to be representative, might suggest so, but there are not many examples, so it wo…
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Thank you! That's very kind of you.
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I should like to have this clarified though. It is clear that /ʌnˈnəʊn/ uses /ʌ/ in a syllable which does not get the main stress, and there is no secondary stress indicated. This is from the Oxford online dictionary.
Is the fact that /ʌ/…
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And yet, the Oxford dictionary uses it in my example above in an unstressed syllable, though I guess it may have secondary stress.
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Got my answer, I guess: ʌnˈnəʊn
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I see it is used in hiccup https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hiccup but is there some secondary stress on that syllable with the /ʌ/ which would not tend …
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I guess I'm trying to understand what the expression someone else has used actually means.
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@DavidCrosbie. Sorry, I wasn't being clear. I meant leaving out the article before the expression 'date of manufacture' in contexts like '5 months …
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Thanks for your reply, @DavidCrosbie . I guess one reason to avoid them would be that some people have very passionately held views that such usage is incor…
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Thank you, @DavidCrosbie.
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Thank you, @DavidCrosbie
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Thank you, @Simone
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Thank you.
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Thank you to both of you for your help. :-)
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Thank you, Simone.
For my present purposes, I do think avoiding over-hyphenation would be as important as avoiding under-hyphenation. These compounds will appear with a great frequency and littering the page with hyphens would not seem wi…
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I have found out that a library in Oslo apparently subscribes, but I don't think I can get hold of a library card from there before I am in the east of the country next. Yes, I do indeed live in Norway. I guess it is possible that I can register …
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Thanks, David Crosbie. That's helpful.
One needs a separate subscription for the OED, right?
I doubt my local library in Norway is a subscriber, though I guess I might give it a try.
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It is, in fact, the same for 'water-resistant'. Here, the noun 'water-resistance' is also down as hyphenated. Both noun and adjective have examples to back up the idea of permanent hyphenation under the main entries for the compounds.
But…
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I know that hyphenation is not a matter of very hard-and-fast rules, but I guess I just want to figure out how to tell if the dictionary recommends something that does not follow the general guidelines on hyphenation for a particular word. As it …
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Thank you. I have Hart's. The rule is a general one, afaik, though. So I was wondering about these particular types of compounds.
Part of the reason I wonder is because I cannot find the adjective 'cutting-edge' open in any of the example…
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Follow-up question:
Is 'cutting edge' not being used as an adjective compound in the sentence 'Their technology is cutting edge'?
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Thank you again.
I think 'amount of force' is indeed OK in the context in which I'm using it. Now, it concerns a test conducted on the glove, and what is measured is the amount of force 'required' for a certain object to penetrate the mat…
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Thanks for your thoughts on the issue, and your time and effort, David Crosbie. I shall mull it over.
Sometimes translating something can be a bit confusing in that you are not sure exactly how many 'aspects' of the original you ought to …
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Why would the word 'prevent' not do?
You can still try to scratch with your nails even if you're wearing gloves. It's just that it won't have the same effect.
