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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