  1. In compounding words the International Dictionary will be followed, with but few exceptions. 2. The following words are so common in the work of this office that the usage of many years will be continued: post-office court-house custom-house light-house navy-yard attorney-general, etc. consul-general vice-consul lieutenant-general, etc. sergeant-major quartermaster-sergeant, etc. color-corporal lieutenant-commander rear-admiral flag-officer judge-advocate-general provost-marshal provost-marshal-general 3. Make one word of horsepower, candlepower, and hundredweight, and use adjectively as laid down in the succeeding paragraph. 4. Compound adjectives take the hyphen: A 2-foot rule, 10-horsepower engine, 16-candlepower light, 6-hundredweight load, many-colored coat, light-armed soldier, asked-for opinion, fine-grained wood, light-green color, etc. 5. Compound the following: mid-channel double-loader single-loader pleuro-pneumonia national-bank notes re-treat (to treat again) ante-mortem micro-organism micro-millimeter micro-photograph acre-foot (plural acre-feet) foot-acre (plural foot-acres) pound-foot (plural pound-feet) post-mortem foot-pound (plural foot-pounds) foot-poundal (plural foot-poundals) foot-second (plural foot-seconds) second-foot (plural second-feet) foot-ton (plural foot-tons) pound-degree (plural pound-degrees) 6. Follow compounding, etc., in the appended list of fishes and fishery appliances: alewife amber-fish angel-fish bag seine bass net bellows-fish black bass black-cod blackfish black perch blue crab bluefish boat fishermen boat-steerer bomb-gun bottom-feeding fish bowhead whale boxfish brook trout buffalo-fish bullhead bull’s-eye mackerel buoy line butter-fish candle-fish catboat catfish cigar-fish coast line codfish codfish fishery cod fishery cod fishing cod line crampfish crawfish crayfish crayfish pot cultus-cod cutting-in (of a whale) datefish dealfish devil-fish dingey doctor-fish dogfish dollar-fish drag net drag seine drift net drumfish fat-head fiddler-crab finback whale fish-culture fish eggs fishing-camp fishing-ground fishing-place fish roe fish-wheel flake-yard flatfish flying-fish food-fish frostfish garfish gill net gill-net fishing goldfish goosefish green crab greenfish ground line hagfish hair seal hand lance harbor porpoise harpoon gun hermit-crab hickory-jack hogfish hoop net horsefish horse-mackerel horseshoe-crab houndfish humpback whale jackfish jelly-fish jewfish jonah-crab kelp-crab kelpfish kingfish lady-crab lady-fish land-crab landlocked salmon live-car lobster pot lumpfish mollusk monkfish moonfish mossbunker mud-crab mudfish muskellunge mussel-crab mutton-fish nigger-fish nursefish oyster bed oyster-crab paddle-fish pan-fish parrot-fish peacock-fish pigfish pilot-fish pipefish purse seine ratfish red crab red-eye redfish red grouper red-horse red perch red snapper rock-bass rock-cod rock-crab rockfish rock lobster rose-fish round-fish rowboat rudder-fish salmon canning salmon-canning industry salmon trout sand-crab sawfish scallop sea bass sea-cucumber sea-horse seal oil seal skin sea moss sea mullet sea-urchin seaweed seine-haul seine-reach set net sheat-fish sheepshead shellfish shore-crab skipjack smelt net snake-fish snapping mackerel soft crab Spanish mackerel spearfish spider-crab squeteague squirrel-fish starfish steelhead stingray stone-crab striped bass sulphur-bottom whale sunfish swordfish tautog threadfish tilefish toadfish tomcod trammel net trawl basket trawling-ground treefish trigger-fish trumpet-fish trying-out (of a whale) try-works tubfish weakfish whaleboat whalebone whale line whistling buoy whitefish wolf-fish yellow-tail 7. Fractions, when spelled, will be compounded: One twenty-first, one-fifth, eighty-one one-hundredths, one one-hundredth, the one-hundredth part. 8. The words “well,” “so,” and “ill” will be used as follows: He is an ill-tempered man; he is very ill tempered. Well-meant intentions; his intentions are well meant. His so-called poem; his poem (so called) is, etc. But generally adverbs are not compounded with adjectives which they qualify: A divinely inspired book; a finely modeled statue; a nicely kept lawn. |
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