>> >Exstewardesses?>
>> I do believe a hyphen is required.
Tom Wier wrote:
>I disagree. If a morpheme is a fully fledged derivational morpheme, and
not
>just a clitic like <'s> nor a compound in a compound word, then why
hyphenate>
I suspect usage is changing as we speak. Seems to me Safire has weighed in
on this question many a time in his column. (But can't recall whether he's
pro or con whatever the Good Gray Times demands.) Use/non-use of hyphens
may be a (gasp!) generational thing.......
co-conspirator? co-defendant? ex-lover? ex-dictator? non-conforming?
non-living? excetera.
I've been taken to task for making the possessive of names ending in -s with
the simple apostrophe-- Mills' theory, Geurtjens' dictionary, Mr. Roberts'
rank.....
which I think is OK in British usage. Or am I wrong on all counts?