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TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES--PART VI, NO. 36


  COMPOUND WORDS

  A STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLES
  OF COMPOUNDING, THE COMPONENTS
  OF COMPOUNDS, AND THE
  USE OF THE HYPHEN

  BY
  FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, LL. D.

  EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR
  UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA.

  PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
  UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA
  1918



  COPYRIGHT, 1918
  UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA
  CHICAGO, ILL.




PREFACE


The subject of compounds is one of the most difficult of the matters
relating to correct literary composition. The difficulty arises from the
fact that usage, especially in the matter of the presence or absence of
the hyphen, is not clearly settled. Progressive tendencies are at work
and there is great difference of usage, even among authorities of the
first rank, with regard to many compounds in common use.

An attempt is made to show first the general character of the problems
involved. Then follows a discussion of the general principles of
compounding. The general rules for the formation of compounds are stated
and briefly discussed. The various components of compounds are fully
analyzed and tabulated. The best modern usage in the matter of the
employment of the hyphen is set forth in a series of rules. The whole is
concluded by practical advice to the compositor as to the use of the
rules in the actual work of the office.




CONTENTS

                                    PAGE

  INTRODUCTION                         1

  GENERAL PRINCIPLES                   4

  ACCENT IN COMPOUNDING                5

  THE FORMATION OF COMPOUNDS           6

  COMPONENTS OF COMPOUNDS              7

  RULES FOR THE USE OF THE HYPHEN      9

  SUPPLEMENTARY READING               16

  REVIEW QUESTIONS                    17




COMPOUND WORDS




INTRODUCTION


The English language contains a great many words and phrases which are
made up of two or more words combined or related in such a way as to
form a new verbal phrase having a distinct meaning of its own and
differing in meaning from the sum of the component words taken singly.
_Income_ and _outgo_, for example, have quite definite meanings related,
it is true, to _come_ and _go_ and to _in_ and _out_, but