Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?
I will need to know in a few days time - dunno why.

Will.
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?
I will need to know in a few days time - dunno why.

Will.
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Sorry, I also meant to ask - is it the convention in this newsgroup to report
snow depths above 11 inches in metres or feet ? :-)

Will.
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In article ,
Will Hand writes:
Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?

According to my Concise Oxford, yes it should. So should "north-east"
and "north-eastward(s)". But not - oddly enough - "northeaster", meaning
a north-east wind.
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that man can never learn anything from history."
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In article ,
Will Hand writes:
Sorry, I also meant to ask - is it the convention in this newsgroup to report
snow depths above 11 inches in metres or feet ? :-)

No, in centimetres. Though I must admit that to understand how big
values given in centimetres really are I first have to mentally convert
them into inches.

BTW, don't go getting over-excited, Will. You know that the next set of
model runs might all do a volte face. Unlikely, perhaps, but we've seen
it happen only a week or so ago.
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that man can never learn anything from history."
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Will, have you opened a bottle already? Celebratory or otherwise!!! ;-)

(You're a tease you know...)

By the way, if you're this side of the Irish pond it's metres... If rain,
centimetres...if snow then it's millimetres if lucky!

Joe

Enjoy the runs (models' that is!)

"Will Hand" wrote in message
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?
I will need to know in a few days time - dunno why.

Will.
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Sorry, I also meant to ask - is it the convention in this newsgroup to
report
snow depths above 11 inches in metres or feet ? :-)

Will.
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Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?
I will need to know in a few days time - dunno why.
Will.

I think I would hyphenate it. Chambers Dictionary hypehnates all words
beginning with north-east.

Anne

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:02:17 -0000, Will Hand wrote:

Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ? I will need to know
in a few days time - dunno why.

Teaser. But a few days times covers the weekly forecast for the 25th
when it "always" dumps a load on us.

Sorry, I also meant to ask - is it the convention in this newsgroup
to report snow depths above 11 inches in metres or feet ? :-)

Inches up to 20 or so then feet and inches but then I'm of an age
where "meters" are things with waggly needles in them not a mesurement
of distance. A few 1/1000ths or 1/100ths are OK but nothing bigger.
Indeed I've been know to measure something as 1 foot 2 inches 3.5mm...

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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:54:30 -0000, "Will Hand"
wrote:

Should "northeasterly" be hyphenated or not ?

Should be nor'easterly.

Dunno why.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:18:56 -0000, JCW wrote in


By the way, if you're this side of the Irish pond it's metres... If rain,
centimetres...if snow then it's millimetres if lucky!

Hi Joe - so when Paddy Power paid up at 12-1 on my inch of snow at Dublin
Airport on 25 December 2004, they had to convert from mm to inches:-)

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 14/02/2005 20:28:05 UTC

Ah Mike, I know you were well rewarded... Christmas was special wasn't it?
Truth be told I hit it good too with falls at Belfast & Manchester.
Paid for the pressies!

I'm thinking for of the rest of our winter here. Nothing for the kids to
play with at all. YET!

;-)



"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:18:56 -0000, JCW wrote in


By the way, if you're this side of the Irish pond it's metres... If rain,
centimetres...if snow then it's millimetres if lucky!

Hi Joe - so when Paddy Power paid up at 12-1 on my inch of snow at Dublin
Airport on 25 December 2004, they had to convert from mm to inches:-)

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 14/02/2005
20:28:05 UTC