Canadian Style Tip #14: Compound nouns and nouns in compounds

This post is part of the Canadian Style series.

2.02 Compound nouns and nouns in compounds

(e) Hyphenate nouns of family relationship formed with great and in-law.

  • father-in-law
  • great-aunt

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