[Forum] RE: Names for Railroad Lines

Hi. Thanks for the input. It turns out that the company wrote their name both ways (with and without the ampersand) on the sides of their trains and on their documents around the turn of the twentieth century, so I'm just going to choose to keep the ampersand and do so consistently throughout the ma

[Forum] RE: Twentieth-century America

Duh, just found my answer in Chicago. Yes, hyphen. Apologies for my bass ackwardness this morning! (Or would that be "bass-ackwardness"?) [i]Hey, Jude, don't make it bad . . .[/i]

[Forum] RE: Format for internal dialog

Ah. Well, taking into account the lack of modern typographical resources, that makes sense. It also underscores the reasons why using novels written prior to the twentieth century may not be the best examples of correctness when it comes to writing, syntax, grammar, or punctuation.

[Forum] RE: Twentieth-century America

I'm looking for that answer myself. My inclination is to hyphenate it since it's being used as a compound adjective, but I'd like an authoritative answer from Chicago Manual since I'm changing it on copy I'm editing. If it were my own copy, I'd just hyphenate it without a question.

[Forum] Spell out number in a chapter title?

The chapter is titled: [b]The 20th President: James Garfield[/b] I have just changed 20th century to twentieth century, in accordance with CMOS, and don't know if this title calls for a similar change. Thanks!

[Forum] Semicolons

I'm not editing this. I'm reading it for a friend for the writing construction. The author said it has been edited once already. This sentence threw me. I can't figure out why there are semicolons there. [color=#0000CD]He knew he shouldn’t have stayed up to watch [i]The Sting[/i] again for th

[Forum] RE: CMOS Typos

This is why I think there is no error and no extra "19": What if the years were not given all together in one example (as mikelong quotes) but were simply used in a sentence? "She was most active in the '80s and '90s." If all that is given is the decade, but not the century, a reader may mistake the

[Forum] RE: Twentieth-century America

[quote='Pixna' pid='26826' dateline='1453926819'] Hahaha! You beat me, Tut -- although I was in this thread back in 2013, so maybe not. :D [/quote] Damn! You're right. I was just so excited to beat you to welcoming a new forum member! :) [quote='finaleyes@q.com' pid='26828' dateline='1453929

[Forum] Cold-War America

hi! When using "Cold War" as an adjective, as in "early Cold War America"... Should I use hyphens as in the example "twentieth-century America"? Would it be Chicago style to say "in early Cold-War America"? Thanks in advance,

[Forum] RE: Twentieth-century America

Hi, finaleyes, and welcome to the forum! The justification you seek is in the hyphenation table in [url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch07/ch07_sec085.html]CMOS 7.85[/url]. (To view the table as a PDF file, click [url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf]here[/url].)