Aversion of War and War-Aversion

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Can "Aversion of War" be expression as "War-Aversion" with the meaning intact?

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We are averse TO things.

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@centrox,

centrox wrote:

We are averse TO things.

Thank you.

Now the question is: Can "Aversion to War" be expressed as "War-Aversion"?

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

centrox wrote:

We are averse TO things.

Thank you.

Now the question is: Can "Aversion to War" be expressed as "War-Aversion"?

Yes, and the hyphen is optional. Also no need to capitalise.

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@centrox,

Cen's always get selected

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Now the question is:

Well Cen, bein' slow thinker, had same q. But now I see 'twas sayin' the first as preferable

Oh, and tech-advert notwithstandin', Ori, places where the '-' might do, include the instance where it's a compound adjective, frinstance as in 'War-Aversion Therapy'

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hyphen is optional

Well Cen, you're relly bein' lib here

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@dalehileman,

dalehileman wrote:

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hyphen is optional
Well Cen, you're relly bein' lib here

There are no specific rules on forming compound nouns. For example, ink-well can be written ink well or inkwell. All three versions are acceptable.

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@centrox,

Thank you Cen, I always delight in your responses. But, gee, at least over here, Cen, we'd never write 'ink-well' 'less, in, like '...then he stole the ink--well, anyway he took it w/out tellin' me...'

Oh hey Cen, by the way, in Ap/Mac it takes 44 keystrokes to make a dash [long hyphen], that is, a '_' 'ceptin' up a li'l. They make their software hard as they can, millions of Glitches too, then sit 'round that big table laffin'tus
as for 'ink well,' well, hell, never will

...'ceptin, well, my BH, who's much smarter'n me, doesn't agree on that last'n....

Then, too, if they 'gnize "sdmarter'n' " as missp of "smarter'n'," wuncha s'pose they might some day catch onta 'isd' ?? [I keep sayin', there's that typo in their Hiring Guide, where it says, '... your grade-school ed. ...,' s/b '... journ trade-school ed. ...'

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@dalehileman,

dalehileman wrote:

at least over here, Cen, we'd never write 'ink-well'

Used to be common in British English before about 1920, machine-gun, motor-car, top-hat, pen-knife, etc, but now VERY old fashioned.

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@centrox,

Aha, thanks again Cen

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Oxford Dictionary:

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In modern English the use of hyphens is in general decreasing, especially in compound nouns: website is preferred to web-site, and air raid to air-raid. Hyphens are still often employed where a compound expression precedes a noun, as in first-rate musicians or twenty-odd people (twenty odd people means something quite different!), but even in this context there is a growing trend to omit them. When a phrasal verb such as build up is made into a noun it is usually hyphenated (a build-up of pressure). Note, however, that a normal phrasal verb should not be hyphenated: write food to take away not food to take-away, and continue to build up your pension not continue to build-up your pension

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@centrox,

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use of hyphens is in general decreasing

Yea Cen I've noticed that, sometimes for the better, sometimes not

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