Re: Spelling - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Spelling
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Msg-id 200109121424.f8CEObG06787@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Spelling  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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> ...
> > * "multi" is not a word by itself, so there is no hyphenation when it's
> >   used as a prefix:
> >   multibyte character, multicharacter operator name, multiversion
> >   concurrency control, multicolumn index
>
> No arguments here, but...
>
> I *think* that it is typical and accepted to use hyphenation in cases
> where the base word does not have that qualification as common usage.

I agree with Thomas.  The other changes Peter suggested are fine.

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