[lbo-talk] black? African American?

Eric rayrena at realtime.net
Sat Sep 29 09:00:25 PDT 2007



>[why is AA not hyphenated, like Italian-American?]

Pedantry alert! The latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style says not to hyphenate any of these forms, even when they are used as adjectives. I believe that lesser, plebian reference The AP Style Guide, which I can't be seen looking at, says the same thing.



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