[tei-council] A nice easy one
James Cummings
James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jan 16 10:48:12 EST 2010
Oh, I realised that I didn't express a preference. I'd definitely go
for 'stand-off' vs 'standoff' with no real good reason other than it
looks better to me. Aren't there rules about hyphenation and such
things that some weird people follow?
-James
James Cummings wrote:
> I've done some very imprecise and unscientific searching with various
> search engines. 'standoff' seems to be used more in north american
> publications where 'stand-off' seems preferred elsewhere. (Also it
> seemed to me that 'standoff' was used earlier.)
>
> As a place, it is of course 'Stand Off'... as demonstrated by this photo
> that I took on my way back from the 2006 TEIMM:
>
> http://gallery.blushingbunny.net/v/james/2006/Victoria-2006-10/TripBack/Kamloops2Leth/Kamloops2Leth261.jpg.html
>
>
> -James
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