AP Style: Fundraiser -- ditch the hyphen; Best-seller, add it
Finally!
AP, bowing to what has become common usage, as of today changes its style.
fundraiser, fundraising: One word in all cases.
May the hyphenated form RIP.
(Now, will it address the usually ignored distinction it makes between "good will" and "goodwill"?)
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Update
In a late-afternoon message, AP also has made best-seller hyphenated in all uses, including the noun. That construction always has seemed more natural to me, although I don't see why AP didn't just to all the way and use "bestseller," the first-listed spelling in Webster's.
posted by Doug @ 1:52 PM
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4 Comments:
Does this refer to nouns too? "A fund raiser from the foundation will speak today."
Yes, that would be what the AP means by all cases. Previously, you used the hyphenated form. (AP's example was "A fund-raiser was hired.)
Do you no longer use the hyphen when you are using it as an adjective, as in "fund-raising activities?"
--Katherine
That's correct. It's one word in all cases.
Doug
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