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Don't expect the rest of us to believe it!
(where's that arched eyebrow emoticon??)
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Why can you not hyphenate a word ending in -ly?
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Why can you not hyphenate a word ending in -ly? You can Bel, the question is - do they want you to?  
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then there could be some confusion as to what third floor gallery meant. Since this is unlikely to be the case..>>>> oh would that be the level 2 stories or 3 stories above the street level?? 
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another example of trans atlantic (or transPacific) difference is the USn use of nonviolent (as in MLK Jnr). In UK or Oz we would use non-violent.
Further thought; why not unviolent? Apart from sounding awful, that is.
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You can hyphenate a word ending in ly:
(In the spirit of baseball) fly-by-night
Rimshot !!!
Boasting regards,
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fly-by-night
Exactly my point. The -ly rule is, I believe, an attempt to point out that adverbs don't need hyphens after them if linked in a chain adv. adj. noun since there is no confusion that could result if, in the case of adj. adj. noun, you were unsure whether the two adjectives were a lumped together phrase or each individually modifying the noun. Just saying words ending in -ly is imprecise as I pointed out above.
And CapK, Do you mean to suggest that baseball is not universally written as one word?
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2 stories or 3 stories above the street level??
The issue of whether you start counting the floors at 1 or 0 is a whole nother issue and has no effect on the question of whether we are talking about the the third gallery of floors or about the gallery on the third floor (irregardless of whether or not that floor is or isn't on the third floor or the fourth floor or not).
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perhaps the was insufficient to convey the sense of tongue-in-cheekness of my post....or perhaps people are just getting tired on this board
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perhaps people are just getting tired on this boarddonworrabbatid! he's always like that, which is why he's our Head Louse Scratcher
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