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Offline Neutros the Radioactive Dragon

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RE: Reexamine
« on: December 07, 2004, 04:20:11 PM »
I'm typing up our companies quarterly newsletter, and just ran across this:

Re-examine.

Now, my first instinct is to say that re is only a prefix, and does not need to be hyphenated.  But Word accepts that spelling.  To make matters more confusing, Word also accepts reexamine.

Which is it? :huh:  

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2004, 04:49:56 PM »
Reexamine.

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2004, 04:52:14 PM »
My thoughts exactly.

Thanks.

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2004, 05:01:58 PM »
Word's spell checker is not to be trusted. If in doubt, look it up in Merriam-Webster.

But anyway, your instinct is right. Prefixes generally don't need to be hyphenated, unless they could be misread. It's also helpful to distinguish between pairs like recreate and re-create. But that's probably more than you really wanted to know, so I'll stop typing now.

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2004, 08:31:14 PM »
Once I read a sewing manual that kept referring to me as the sew-er.  I couldn't figure this out until I tried writing it without the hyphen.
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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2004, 09:06:58 PM »
lol!

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2004, 08:09:21 AM »
I prefer re-examine, and also mis-spell because I can never remember whether there should be two s's or not.  :runs off to the copyright office to stake a claim to Rexamine"

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2004, 05:00:29 PM »
That would be the trademark office, wouldn't it?

And what is this wonderful product?  It sounds like a drug to increase your kinglyness or something.

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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2004, 02:12:46 AM »
And does "reread" exist ?  
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RE: Reexamine
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2004, 05:08:07 AM »
It does Anna.
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