Re: I need some help!


"VickieHerndonCMT" <vickieboinkherndon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I personally think it takes more "smarts" to remember the correct
spelling/usage of followup vs follow up than by making it easy and sticking
a hyphen in there just so you don't have to think, i.e. follow-up

But the hyphen only belongs in there when it's used as an adjective, so if a
person doesn't know the difference between an adjective and a noun, then
it's not that easy.


The BOS actually says that follow-up is acceptable as an adjective though
there are some services that use follow up for the verb and followup for
adj such as followup visit, and followup as a noun, i.e. the patient will
return for her followup in 2 weeks.

I find in doing QA that people just get these confused, so my conclusion
is that if you could just stick that hyphen in there, it would make it
easier.

And that's my point exactly. Just because the dummies get confused doesn't
make it right to change basic rules of grammar, be it adding a hyphen
incorrectly or smooshing the compound word together so as to avoid making an
incorrect decision.

Liz


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