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hotwaterbottled?tsuwm, you need to get out more! 
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Juan, you don't like hubbub b's sandwiched together. OK. Taste is indisputable. But what about: bubble, Hubble, nobbin... other double b's? Is it just the hubbub double-b because of the proximity of the u's? Too bad there's not a word bubbub! It would be a palindrome both front and back and inside-out!Probably because, to me, the center bs in hub-bub are two distinct bs, while, in the other examples, the bs are more like a rolling-together sound...(interestingly enough, "roll together" didn't quite capture the effect I was trying to communicate, and when I changed it to "rolling-together" it was a much more effective image...but without the hyphen, "rolling together" wouldn't have been as effective either!). I think this is where Musick's Dictum comes in somewhere, isn't it? 
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so is it normally dubdub? or is it dub-dub? or have I chopped the liv-er, or merely stated the obvious?
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Juan says: So, lessee...what you're saying then, is that the introduction of a hyphen into any standing word structure for clarity's sake is taboo?
Beautiful example, Juan!
Of the fallacy of hasty generalization.
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Personally, I like hyphens. But not in hubbub, or with "ly" words (a discussion we've had before and I know ICLIU but I don't feel like doing it just now)
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me and john dos passos vote for the hyphen in dub-dub but not in hubbub. we think the hyphen serves as a necessary syntaxal pause in dub-pause-dub. otherwise hyphenate only for the mental image of a thing that has been altered by joining. but in general join words together like germans. it'll look poetic and make your sentences read smoothly. i am writing in the lower case not because of any ee cummings literary air but because mister petee is sitting on the shift key and won't move. mister petee is a cat.
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Juan says: So, lessee...what you're saying then, is that the introduction of a hyphen into any standing word structure for clarity's sake is taboo?
Beautiful example, Faladage!
Of quoting out of context.
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hubbub
No question about it.
Longer strings, of *real, discrete words, definitely should be hyphenated, as Juan pointed out.
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Of quoting out of context.It's the beginning the middle and ... heck, it is the whole context of that response (one that presumes a stinking-rule is being *invented). I'm with tsuwm on the "hotwaterbottled" ommission. 
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