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Re: Hyphen Question: non-smoker or nonsmoker ?

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In a message dated 9/5/2002 9:20:32 AM Central Daylight Time,

medmomJ@... writes:

> I don't have the BOS, but looking at Fordney & Diehl's 'Do's and

> Don'ts' rules for the hyphen I would think it is non-smoker.

> However, I see it in print as nonsmoker. Which is correct?

>

According to the 2nd Ed of the BOS, the rule is:

Do not use a hyphen to joint most prefixes, including non- (etc. etc.)

HTH,

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