One Word, Two Words, Hyphenated?
Let's face it. Compounds confound us. Are we to write words  such as lifestyle (life-style?, life style?) and database (data-base?,  data base?) as solid, hyphenated or open? That even dictionaries don't  agree compounds the compound problem. "In One Word, Two Words,  Hyphenated? Mary Louise Gilman offers straightforward, sensible and  up-to-date help to the stylistically challenged. With authority and a  leavening of humor, she turns a briar patch of compound words into a  rational, manageable garden of delight. This book could become a  bestseller (best-seller?, best seller?). --Richard Lederer, author ofAnguished EnglishandMore Anguished Englishcoauthor ofThe Write WayMary Louise Gilman's One Word, Two Words, Hyphenated? is a real  time saver (or is that timesaver, or maybe time-saver?). Anyone who  writes, edits or prepares manuscripts ought to have this meticulously  compiled book close at hand. It has saved me many a trip to the  dictionary. --Richard Dowis, President of the Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature and coauthor ofThe Write Way