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Re: Style question: "war dial" vs. "wardial" vs. "war-dial"I'd go with linguistic tendency and write it as one word and then, and here's the key, be consistent. :-) Sean, I agree with you, as long as we define the word _consistent_ intelligently. We don't want to encourage a foolish consistency. Many expressions are a single word (perhaps originally a hyphenated compound) when used as an adjective but remain two words when used as a phrase. For example, "it will take a pasteup artist ten minutes to paste up that page." Okay, not too many folks here are old enough to know what a pasteup artist is, so let's try, "it will take a makeup artist three hours to make up that actor." There, that's better. Or "onsite training means you have to be on site." So in this context, _consistency_ means that you use a given form whenever the locution in question is performing a particular role in the sentence. When it it performing a different role in the sentence, a different form may be required. Dick --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses at mail.fiam.net] Follow-Ups:
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