Hyphenating Prefixes - ILuvWords

Posted: Dec 18th, 2017 - 7:17 pm In Reply to: hypenating - nn

Both "anti-inflammatory" and "intra-abdominal" are hyphenated in Merriam Webster's dictionary. I'm looking for documentation that says not to.

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Hyphenating prefixes - ILuvWords (Views: 1138, 2017-12-18, 6:46 pm)
- hypenating - nn (Views: 796, 2017-12-18, 6:55 pm)
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    - I was taught what you were taught - StillAnMT (Views: 729, 2017-12-18, 8:19 pm)
  - I saw hyphens.... - nm (Views: 748, 2017-12-18, 8:21 pm)
    - Two successive vowels - That is correct (Views: 555, 2017-12-20, 12:26 pm)
      - You are correct about cutting keystrokes...nothing I - was taught in the 60s hold true now. (Views: 789, 2017-12-23, 8:56 pm)
- defintely depends on the words, preoperative is not hyphenated or infraumbilical, - reimburse, sm (Views: 498, 2017-12-27, 9:41 am)
  - Wouldn't a dictionary - ILuvWords (Views: 536, 2017-12-27, 10:06 am)
    - Yes, I totally agree with you - nm (Views: 486, 2017-12-27, 10:42 am)
  - "Preoperative" and "infraumbilical" - ILuvWords (Views: 451, 2017-12-27, 10:08 am)