[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez:
>It's my understanding that words like African American should not be
>hyphenated when they are nouns and should be hyphenated when they are
used
>descriptively. Ex:
>
>Mayor Giuliani is one of many Italian Americans.
>
>That Italian-American conservative Giuliani is running a very nasty
campaign.
...although the late '60s variant on African American ("Afro-American")
was *always* hyphenated...
Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
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