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15th Edition7 : Spelling, Distinctive Treatment of Words, and Compounds

• Introduction
• 7.1       Recommended dictionaries
• 7.2       Other dictionaries
• 7.3       Topics covered
• Variant Spellings
• 7.4       Spellings peculiar to particular disciplines
• 7.5       Non-U.S. spelling
• Plurals
• 7.6       Standard forms
• 7.7       Alternative plurals
• 7.8       Compound nouns
• 7.9       Proper nouns
• 7.10     Tribal names
• 7.11     Singular form used for the plural
• 7.12     Italicized words
• 7.13     Words in quotation marks
• 7.14     Noun coinages
• 7.15     Letters, abbreviations, and numerals
• 7.16     Use of apostrophe
• Possessives
• The General Rule
• 7.17     Most nouns
• 7.18     Proper nouns, letters, and numbers
• Exceptions to the General Rule and Some Options
• 7.19     Nouns plural in form, singular in meaning
• 7.20     Names like “Euripides”
• 7.21     Words and names ending in unpronounced “s”
• 7.22     Other exceptions
• 7.23     An alternative practice
• Particularities of the Possessive
• 7.24     Two nouns as a unit
• 7.25     Compounds
• 7.26     Genitive
• 7.27     Possessive versus attributive forms
• 7.28     Gerunds
• 7.29     Possessive with “of”
• 7.30     Italicized or quoted terms
• Contractions and Interjections
• 7.31     Contractions
• 7.32     Interjections
• Word Division
• 7.33     Dictionary system
• 7.34     Words that should not be divided
• 7.35     Dividing according to pronunciation
• 7.36     Dividing after a vowel
• 7.37     Compounds, prefixes, and suffixes
• 7.38     Gerunds
• 7.39     Two-letter word endings
• 7.40     Proper nouns and personal names
• 7.41     Numerals
• 7.42     Abbreviations
• 7.43     Run-in lists
• 7.44     URLs and e-mail addresses
• 7.45     Typographic considerations
• “A” and “An,” “O” and “Oh”
• 7.46     “A” and “an”
• 7.47     “O” and “oh”
• Ligatures
• 7.48     Use of ligatures
• Italics, Capitals, and Quotation Marks
• Emphasis
• 7.49     Italics for emphasis
• 7.50     Capitals for emphasis
• Foreign Words
• 7.51     Italics
• 7.52     Parentheses and quotation marks
• 7.53     Proper nouns
• 7.54     Familiar foreign words
• 7.55     Italics at first occurrence
• 7.56     Scholarly words and abbreviations
• Highlighting Terms in Specific Contexts
• 7.57     Italics
• 7.58     “Scare quotes”
• 7.59     “So-called”
• Quoted Phrases, Common Expressions, and Slang
• 7.60     Quoted phrases
• 7.61     Slang
• Words and Letters Used as Words
• 7.62     Words and phrases used as words
• 7.63     Letters as letters
• 7.64     Scholastic grades
• 7.65     Plurals of letters
• 7.66     Letters standing for names
• 7.67     Letters as shapes
• 7.68     Names of letters
• 7.69     Rhyme schemes
• Music: Some Typographic Conventions
• 7.70     Reference works
• 7.71     Musical pitches
• 7.72     Octaves
• 7.73     Chords
• 7.74     Major and minor
• 7.75     Dynamics
• Computer Terms
• 7.76     Variation
• 7.77     Capitalization
• 7.78     The plus sign
• 7.79     Font
• 7.80     Words to be typed
• 7.81     Names and terms
• Compounds and Hyphenation
• Introduction
• 7.82     Overview
• 7.83     Some definitions
• 7.84     The trend toward closed compounds
• 7.85     Hyphens and readability
• 7.86     Compound modifiers before or after a noun
• 7.87     Adverbs ending in “ly”
• 7.88     Multiple hyphens
• 7.89     Hyphen with word space
• Hyphenation Guide for Compounds, Combining Forms, and Prefixes
• 7.90     Overview