Author Topic: RE: Reexamine (Read 2454 times)

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **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?

Icarus · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2004, 04:49:56 PM »

Reexamine.

:thecheat:

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2004, 04:52:14 PM »

My thoughts exactly.

Thanks.

Jonathon the Dragonator · « **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.

Annie the Masticator · « **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.

Pepe the Inamimated · « **Reply #5 on:** December 07, 2004, 09:06:58 PM »

lol!

*dies*

Trisha · « **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"

Uchiha Itachi · « **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.

Anna · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2004, 02:12:46 AM »

And does "reread" exist ?

Noemon · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2004, 05:08:07 AM »

It does Anna.