Comments on: Nothing to do with Raspberries, Exactly http://www.dailywritingtips.com/nothing-to-do-with-raspberries-exactly/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daquan Wright http://www.dailywritingtips.com/nothing-to-do-with-raspberries-exactly/comment-page-1/#comment-180229 Daquan Wright Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:02:53 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2866#comment-180229 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/honey+bee?r=75 Seems honey bee is perfectly acceptable. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/honey+bee?r=75

Seems honey bee is perfectly acceptable.

]]> By: Maeve Maddox http://www.dailywritingtips.com/nothing-to-do-with-raspberries-exactly/comment-page-1/#comment-174486 Maeve Maddox Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:43:48 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2866#comment-174486 Bart, You got me on the hyphen, but keep looking on the spelling of <b>honey bee.</b> I believe you'll find it spelled as two words on most university sites. The 1998 <i>Beekeepers Handbook</i> has this note: "The word is correctly written as two words, although some bee journals and texts cling to the use of 'honey bee' as one word." Merriam-Webster gives honeybee, but the OED gives honey-bee. Bart,
You got me on the hyphen, but keep looking on the spelling of honey bee. I believe you’ll find it spelled as two words on most university sites. The 1998 Beekeepers Handbook has this note:

“The word is correctly written as two words, although some bee journals and texts cling to the use of ‘honey bee’ as one word.”

Merriam-Webster gives honeybee, but the OED gives honey-bee.

]]> By: S.D. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/nothing-to-do-with-raspberries-exactly/comment-page-1/#comment-174187 S.D. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:48:30 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2866#comment-174187 Save the bees! Kill the rasberry ants :D Save the bees! Kill the rasberry ants :D

]]> By: Bart Scrivener http://www.dailywritingtips.com/nothing-to-do-with-raspberries-exactly/comment-page-1/#comment-174113 Bart Scrivener Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:50:25 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2866#comment-174113 Rasberry may not be misspelled, but "honey bee" most certainly is. Your citation is vague. What entomologists? Where? How do they manage to overrule Webster's? It's one word: honeybee. And that "newly-discovered threat" is a frequently repeated mistake by amateur writers who don't understand hyphenated modifiers. "Newly" is simply an adverb that modifies "discovered." Rasberry may not be misspelled, but “honey bee” most certainly is. Your citation is vague. What entomologists? Where? How do they manage to overrule Webster’s? It’s one word: honeybee.

And that “newly-discovered threat” is a frequently repeated mistake by amateur writers who don’t understand hyphenated modifiers. “Newly” is simply an adverb that modifies “discovered.”

]]> By: Vic http://www.dailywritingtips.com/nothing-to-do-with-raspberries-exactly/comment-page-1/#comment-170919 Vic Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:15:52 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=2866#comment-170919 Is this true, or are you just razzing us? Is this true, or are you just razzing us?

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