HYPHENATING

[Marla Sharp]

Post your questions on whether to hyphenate here. I know we should always check the dictionary first, but the dictionary doesn't have all combinations of compound words and crazy things like that.

[Rhoda Collins]

Part-time/full-time
isn't one of these ALWAYS hyphenated and the other not? I can never seem to remember....
Rho

[Brenda Rogers]

Hyphenate them both. There are very very few times that they are used as nouns. There's a long discussion on CRF about it.

[Rhoda Collins]

Will do. thanks.

[Rhoda Collins]

http://www.mtdaily.com/mt1/hyphens.html
Good link...

[Rhoda Collins]

pat-frisked??

[Brenda Rogers]

Looks good to me!

[Rhoda Collins]

Thanks, Brenda!

[Marla Sharp]

"Face-to-face" and "one-to-one" should always be hyphenated, right? Here's Merriam-Webster's definitions:

Main Entry: face–to–face
Function: adverb or adjective
1 : within each other's sight or presence (met and talked face–to–face) (a face–to–face consultation
2 : in or into direct contact or confrontation (came face–to–face with the problem)

Main Entry: one–to–one
Pronunciation: \ˌwən-tə-ˈwən, -də-\
Function: adjective
1 : pairing each element of a set uniquely with an element of another set
2 : one-on-one

[Jennifer L. Marquardt]

Hoping I can get some feedback on this one. If the attorney actually says "Point 01" or "Point 10" how do you puntuate that? Is it .01 or Point 01. It looks weird either way. Yep, this is in regards to levels of intoxication. Hope you can help. Thanks.

[Rhoda Collins]

We do .01 or .10

[Jennifer L. Marquardt]

That's what I ended up doing. I just thought it looked weird. Thanks for your help.

[Karen Margolis]

How would you punctuate this one?

"Okay. We're back from our one-minute five-minute break."

This refers to a proposed five-minute break that turned into a one-minute break!