Subject: crab eating H. Merganser
Date: Apr 19 08:21:43 1999
From: Burton Guttman - guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu



I try to teach my students the importance of using hyphens in compound
adjectives. We would all be a lot less surprised in reading messages if
folks realized the significant difference between "crab-eating H.
Merganser" and "crab eating H. merganser."

Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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