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| | Name : | Doug Jones | Organization : | N/A | Post Date : | 9/27/2005 |
| Glossary Term : | Direct Record Electronic (DRE) Voting System_b | Definition : | | Comment : | -- Comment: A matter of grammar and usage. When an adjective modifies a noun, and the composite is used as an adjective, the phrase should be hyphenated, so it is a direct-recording voting machine. In the case of DRE voting machines, one could write direct-recording-electronic voting machine or direct-recording electronic voting machine. The former treats direct-recording-electronic as the adjective phrase, while the latter treats electronic voting machine as the noun phrase being modified by the adjective direct-recording. English is so much fun. | |
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