Re: VP Abbreviation

Subject: Re: VP Abbreviation
From: "Joe McPherson" <zenpickle -at- zensearch -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: 9 May 2001 17:35:51 -0000

On Wed, 09 May 2001 11:16:12 -0500 Lurker writer <lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

>According to the Handbook of Technical Writing, 3rd edition, "a hyphen is

>used with a prefix when the root word is a proper noun."

>

>A Vice President, seemingly, would be the president of vice (sounds

>interesting...)

>

>A Vice-President is someone and something different altogether.

>



Just to confuse things even more, the AP Stylebook (okay, it's not technical writing) suggests "vice president," all lowercase unless it precedes a name.



- Joe McPherson :-)

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