Re: I need some help!


Gisele, while I respect your opinion as always, I must disagree with
your
stance on this one. Yes, English is an ever evolving language, but
sorry..."followup" is the perfect example of the dumbing of America,
akin to
capitalization of all drugs, including generics. IOW, making it
legitimate
to put "follow" and "up" together as one word just excuses those
dummies who
don't know when it's correct to use a hyphen.
Well, I don't see what one thing has to do with another. You still
need to know the parts of speech, noun, verb and adjective, to know
when to use follow up or follow-up/followup. Capping all drugs is
certainly not in the BOS. Workup has not had a hyphen for quite a
while, why should followup?

Gisele


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