Re: 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-'

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Branden,

> as there isn't in "hot fudge sundae" (even though it is only the fudge
> that is hot, not the whole sundae).

It's a ‘fudge sundae’ and a ‘hot-fudge sundae’ as the fudge is hot but
it is not a ‘hot sundae’ so ‘hot fudge sundae’ is wrong as it can't be
read as ‘hot and fudge sundae’.

> "two-fisted drinker"

Agreed.  He is not a ‘two and fisted drinker’.

> Similarly, we say "thirty year-old bug"

‘We’ don't.  :-)  It's a thirty-year-old bug.

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Cheers, Ralph.