More typos

[Chad Burrus]

You can use the hyphen when you have a suffix or prefix that adds a 
repeated vowel, which we've got in this case.  :)

On 8/20/2008 9:19 AM, Tobias Sargeant wrote:
> 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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