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Common Hyphen Error - Old Grammar Teacher
Posted: Nov 03, 2012
I used to teach grammar and I now do MT work. One of the most common hyphen errors lies in the short arm cast, long arm cast.
This does not get hyphenated. By hyphenating it (short-arm cast), one is actually stating there's also a long arm. It's a short (or long) cast that is worn on the arm, not a cast for a short arm or a long arm.
Yep, that's how we learned it at MTEC - ad nauseam
[ In Reply To ..]That's my pet peeve, by the way. The misspelling of ad nauseam. It makes me want to puke.
The error that gets me is when pepole make A LOT one word. - its NOT alot! IT IS A LOT
[ In Reply To ..]If you cant tell, that one raises my BP and I don't know why.
I agree, but it's not an MT error... - MT
[ In Reply To ..]It's in Stedman's, a resource many MTs use.
Wow, my Stedman's Ortho and Rehab Words - has it w/out the hyphen
[ In Reply To ..]It is the hard copy fifth edition. Weird. That's my pet peeve - inconsistency.
Stedman's ortho/rehab 5th and 6th and medical equip 5th have it without hyphen. - nm
[ In Reply To ..]nm
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