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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Hyphen usage

We are having an argument over whether the title of our group named Mid-South Youth Orchestra should actually have a hypen between the Mid-South or just Mid South. What do you think???
  

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It can go either way according to the dictionary. It can be a word on its own, or used in a hypehnated form. Here is a comment from Webster's: Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as, mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc.

  • It can go either way according to the dictionary.
  • It can be a word on its own, or used in a hypehnated form.
  • Here is a comment from Webster's: Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as, mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc.
  • You might look at the way other groups are named.
  • For example, the Mid-South Conference (or MSC) is an athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA (National association of interollegiate athletics).
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It can go either way according to the dictionary. It can be a word on its own, or used in a hypehnated form.

Here is a comment from Webster's:

Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as, mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc.

You might look at the way other groups are named. For example, the

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