{"id":1463,"date":"2015-02-05T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:22:05","slug":"some-weres-need-hyphens-others-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/05\/some-weres-need-hyphens-others-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Some weres need hyphens. Others do not."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a friend\u2019s Facebook page, we’ve been discussing whether various werecreatures should be hyphenated or not. I usually don’t hyphenate unless it would put two vowels in a row. I WOULD hyphenate were-elephant, were-umbrella, were-aardvark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although, as I noted, if you’re a were-aardvark, you have bigger problems than whether your condition is spelled with a hyphen or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a friend\u2019s Facebook page, we’ve been discussing whether various werecreatures should be hyphenated or not. I usually don’t hyphenate unless it would put two vowels in a row. I WOULD hyphenate were-elephant, were-umbrella, were-aardvark. Although, as I noted, if you’re a were-aardvark, you have bigger problems than whether your condition is spelled with a … <\/p>\n

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