More typos
Tobias Sargeant
tobias.sargeant at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 08:19:53 CDT 2008
On 20/08/2008, at 10:39 PM, Chad Burrus wrote:
> I can't say which is correct conclusively (my normal sources don't
> have anything on either variant), but I think I would opt for "re-
> add" just because if you use "readd," most native speakers would
> assume you meant "read," IMO.
Hyphenation in this case would be used to join a compound noun. As
're' isn't a noun, hyphenation isn't correct. Analogous examples are
'reconfigure', 'redeploy'. Because of the possibility of confusion
with read, maybe something like add_again is sensible?
Toby.
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