Gooday all
Howard and Monroe (2003) on p14 say "We urge our readers, especially
those in the Americas and Australasia, to reconsider the tendency to use
hyphens so widely." Apparently we don't consider some "rules of grammar"
and it makes indexing difficult.
Just my two bobs worth to the thread.
Greg Little
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Subject: Capitalisation in hyphenated names
Two separate questions here. The first was about capitalisation with
hyphenated names. I think my reasoning is sound. Cuckoo-shrike,
Shrike-tit, Black-Cockatoo, Bronze-Cuckoo are other examples. It works
in
other countries as well - Scrub-Jay, Paradise-Flycatcher etc.
The new, second question is why do we have Heathwren, Scrubwren,
Fairy-wren, King Parrot and King-Parrot - i.e. inconsistent use of the
hyphen?
I'm not going there at all!
Steve
> If I look in latest Pizzey then he would agree with the two Doves. But
has
> King Parrot as two words.
> Fieldwren and Scrubwren are both one word, Fairy-wren is hyphenated as
is
> Emu-wren.
> So not consistent with your theory (which is a reasonable one!)
>
> On 01/12/2007, <>
wrote:
>>
>> G'day Peter
>>
>> A Turtle-Dove is a Dove.
>> A Cuckoo-Dove is a Dove
>> A King-Parrot is a Parrot
>>
>> A Bee-eater is not an Eater (no such bird name)
>> A Button-quail is not a Quail
>> A Fairy-wren is not a Wren
>> A Native-hen is not a Hen
>>
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>>
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