Football pool
 

Suck it up. It feels like the 14th month over here, primarily because wearing the same damned clothes has grown tiresome.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

That someone is wrong. An adverb doesn't need a hyphen. It's abundantly clear what it's modifying.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

They are wrong. There is no need to hyphenate when an adverb is modifying an adjective.

ETA: Merde. Post, then scroll.

Open mouth, insert silver spoon
 

I know you're not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

I don't think you hyphenate adverb/adjective combos.

Open mouth, insert silver spoon
 

Aw, thanks pregnant-lady person! That made me smile.

Open mouth, insert silver spoon
 

I love anyone who loves Lyle Lovett. Except for Julia Roberts. I never loved her.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

The Supreme Court ruling was highly publicized. The highly-publicized Supreme Court ruling requires that suspects who are in custody receive information regarding their rights.

It depends on whether it is modifying a noun or not. I'm sure dtb will provide greater detail and clarity, but that is the short of it.



ETA: I have read the other advice on this subject, and I am standing by my statement. It is not clear to me whether sunny's usage of the phrase required hyphenation or not.

EFTA: I was not aware of the adverb usage exception. I'll take hte grammar nerds' word for it though. Luckily I write only in simple sentences, so the issue never arises.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

That is the rule when the first word is not an adverb.

This is how I remember the rule you stated above:

She lived during the eighteenth century.
Eighteenth-century life was smelly.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Translation: Sunny is my box bitch, and as the partner she must endure my errors.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Who is the partner in your scenario? I think you've got a dangling bitch in your sentence.

'Cause what they really need is a pep talk
 

Curt Schilling count?

BOSTON - Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and wife Shonda paid to fly a New Orleans family of nine to Boston and pledged to provide them with housing for a year.

“When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn’t just want to make a donation,” Shonda Schilling told The Boston Globe. “We decided we wanted to bring an entire family here and put them up.”

The families connected through a Web site, openyourhome.com, which matches displaced families with people willing to house them. The Schillings registered Friday and on Saturday anonymously arranged for the family to fly to Boston.

“He said, ‘I would like to help you,”’ Efrem Fields, 31, told The Globe in a phone interview from his hotel. “He didn’t say who he was.”

Fields and his wife, Shelita, 28, and their kids met the Schillings at the hotel. Fields said his new friend looked familiar.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Oh the irony.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Does it change if there are double hyphens?

• The co-sign of the loan was ill advised. The ill-advised co-sign will cost her.

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

NO HYPHENS ON COMPOUND ADJECTIVES WHERE THE FIRST PART OF THE COMPOUND IS AN ADVERB ENDING IN "LY"

Now, is that so hard?