At 11:57 AM 10/26/98 PST, Jane Westervelt wrote:

>He was also meticulous about hyphens, so now I'm curious, is the use
>of hyphens as "standardized" as capitalization?

The hyphens are standardized, and mostly make sense. For instance,
great horned owl vs. great-horned owl. It's a big owl with "horns",
not an owl with particularly big "horns", i.e. the biggest of the
horned owls.


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