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Antonija Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Multi-seasonal oil or multiseasonal oil?

Hi,
I have two questions:
1) multiseasonal or multi-seasonal oil?
2) multigrade or multi-grade oil?

Thank you.
  

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It hardly matters. Both are in use. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary has no hyphen after multi in any word, but I think quite a few native speakers might prefer to use it.

— Cool Breeze

  • It hardly matters.
  • Both are in use.
  • The Random House Unabridged Dictionary has no hyphen after multi in any word, but I think quite a few native speakers might prefer to use it.
  • There appears to be a tendency to use a hyphen after some not so common prefixes borrowed from Latin no matter what dictionaries say.
  • Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if someone found a dictionary that hyphenates the words.
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It hardly matters. Both are in use. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary has no hyphen after multi in any word, but I think quite a few native speakers might prefer to use it. There appears to be a tendency to use a hyphen after some not so common prefixes borrowed from Latin no matter what dictionaries say. Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if someone found a dictionary that hyphenates
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