A
air raids (n.—not air-raids—see W’s 10th )
all right (adjectival phrase—not alright—see
W’s 10th )
Anglo-Irish (adj., n.)
an (article used with h + vowel in
ascendancy (not Ascendancy—see W’s 10th
)
Austro-Hungarian (adj.—not Austria-Hungarian—see
W’s New Geog.)
bathtub (n.—not bath tub—see W’s 10th
)
battlefield (n.—not battle field—see W’s
10th)
beaten-earth (adj.—not beaten earth—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
better-done (adj.—not better done—see CMS
Table 6.1)
Boadicea (2nd spelling in W’s 10th:
“Biographical Names”)
breach-of-promise (adj.—not beach of
promise—see CMS
Table 6.1)
bread and butter (compound noun—not
bread-and-butter—see
W’s 10th )
britches (2nd spelling in W’s 10—1st
is
breeches)
brush-and-ink (adj.—not brush and ink—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
cancelled (2nd spelling in W’s 10th )
candlelight (n.—not candle light—see W’s
10th )
chimneypiece (as n.—not chimney piece—
see W’s 10th
)
clearheaded (adj.—not clear-headed—see
W’s 10th )
cotreasurer (n., not co-treasurer—see CMS
Table 6.1)
courts-martial (n.—not courts martial—see
W’s 10th )
day-to-day (adj.—not day to day—see W’s
10th )
death-defying (adj.—not death defying—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
dining-room (adj.—not dining room or
diningroom—see CMS
Table 6.1)
dining room (n.—not diningroom—see W’s
10th )
door knocker (n.—not door-knocker)—see
W’s 10th )
easier-to-imagine (adj.—not easier to
imagine—see CMS
Table 6.1)
E (continued)
eighteenth-century (adj.—not eighteenth
century see CMS
Table 6.1)
eight-inch (adj.—not eighteen inch—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
enquiry (2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
enquiries (2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
evil smelling (adj.—not evil-smelling—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
face-to-face (adj.—not face to face—see W’s
10th )
fanlight (n.—not fan light—see W’s 10th
)
far-from-secure (adj.—not far from secure—
see CMS, Table
6.1)
farmyard (n.—not farm yard)
far-from-affluent (adj.—not far from
affluent—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
fellow sufferers (n.—not fellow-sufferers or
fellowsufferers—see
W’s 10th.)
Findlay-proposed (adj.—not
proposed—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
forever (adv.—not for ever—see W’s 10th
)
foxhounds (n.—not fox-hounds—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
foxhunting (n.—not fox-hunting—see W’s
10th )
States prohibiting
slavery before
Civil War—see W’s 10th
)
fuelling (2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
good-bye (not goodbye—see W’s 10th)
good night (not good-night—see CMS, Table
6.1)
gray
(not grey: the author mostly uses the
spelling
gray)
Great-Aunt
Katie (not great-aunt Katie)
grizzling
(Brit. for “complaining or fretful”—
not
“grisseling”—see W’s 10th and
gravelled
(2nd spelling in W’s 10th )
grown
up (as adj. after noun—not grown-
up—see
CMS, Table 6.1)
gunrunning
(n.—not gun running—see W’s
10th)
half-a-day’s (adj.-poss.—not half a day’s—
see CMS Table
6.1)
half-asleep (adj.—not half asleep—see CMS
Table 6.1)
half-turned (adj.—not half turned—see CMS
Table 6.1)
halfway (adv.—not half way—see W’s 10th
)
handwriting (n.—not hand-writing—see W’s
10th )
H (continued)
hardheaded (adj.—not hard-headed—see W’s
10th )
hard riding (adj.—not hard-riding—see CMS
Table 6.1)
hatboxes (n.—not hat boxes—see W’s 10th
)
hearth rug (n.—not hearthrug—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
Heligoland (n.—2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
high-handed (adj.—not highhanded—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
high-handedness n.—not high handedness—
see W’s 10th
)
when referring to the
house party (n.—not houseparty or house-
party—see W’s 10th
)
Irish president (not Irish President)
jawline (n.—not jaw line—see W’s 10th
)
kitchen-to-drawing-room (adj.—not kitchen
to drawing room—see CMS
Table 6.1)
laissez-faire (not lazier faire—see W’s 10th
)
landowning (not land-owning—see W’s
10th )
large-scale (adj.—not large scale—see CMS
Table 6.1)
last-minute (adj.—not last minute—see CMS
Table 6.1)
late-night (adj.—not late night see CMS
Table 6.1)
late-summer (adj.—not late summer—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
latter-day (adj.—not latter day—see W’s
10th )
life threatening (as pred. adj.—not life-
threatening—see CMS
Table 6.1)
lip-reader (n.—not lip reader—see W’s 10th
)
literal minded (as adj. after noun—not literal-
minded—see CMS
Table 6.1)
ma’am (as noun of direct address—not
m’am—see W’s 10th
)
Madam (as a noun used without a name as a
form of respectful or
polite address
to a woman—not spelled
Madame—see W’s 10th
)
M (continued)
Madame (as noun used as a title before a
name—not spelled
Madam—see
W’s 10th )
matter-of-fact (adj.—not matter of fact—see
W’s 10th )
midafternoon (adj.—not mid-afternoon—see
CMS,
Table 6.1)
middle-class (adj.—not middle class—see
W’s 10th )
midsentence (n.—not mid-sentence see CMS
Table 6.1)
Morning Post (title of
newspaper—not The
Morning Post—see
CMS 7.136)
mother-and-child (as adj.—not mother and
child—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
motorcar (n.—not motor car—see W’s 10th
)
moustache (2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
mown-grass (as adj.—not mown grass—see
CMS,
Table 6.1)
naïveté (not naivete—see W’s 10th )
Nationalist (as adj. and n., designating a
political group in
Ireland ca. 1916:
capitalized—see CMS
7.57-7.59)
NCOs (abbrev.—not N. C. O.s—see CMS
7.20)
neatly kept (adj.—not neatly-kept—see CMS
Table 6.1)
never-before-invoked (adj.—not never before
invoked—see CMS
Table 6.1)
never-very-promising (adj.—not never very
promising—see CMS
Table 6.1)
New Zealand-born (adj.—not New Zealand
born—see CMS
Table 6.1)
no-longer-powerful (adj.—not no longer
powerful—see CMS
Table 6.1)
no-longer-supple (adj.—not no longer
supple—see CMS, Table
6.1)
no-longer-young (adj.—not no longer
young—see CMS, Table
6.1)
no-man’s-land (n.—not no man’s land—see
W’s 10th )
noncommissioned (as adj.—not non-
commissioned—see W’s
10th )
nonessential (adj.—not non-essential—see
W’s 10th )
North of Ireland (defined as a geographic
region)
not-entirely-pleasant (adj.—not not entirely
pleasant—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
not-quite-regular (adj.—not not quite
regular—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
not-quite-retrieved (adj.—not not quite
retrieved—see CMS, Table 6.1)
not-very-serious (adj.—not not very
serious—see CMS,
Table 6.1)
not-very-subtle (adj.—not not very subtle—
see CMS, Table
6.1)
offence (2nd spelling in W’s 10th)
off-limits (as noun—not off limits)
old-fashioned (adj.—not old fashioned—see
W’s 10th )
one-eighth (as adj.—not one eighth—see
CMS,
Table 6.1)
open-minded (adj.—not open minded—see
W’s 10th )
otherworldly (as adj.—not other-worldly—
see W’s 10th
)
out-of-doors (adj. and adv.—not out of
doors—see W’s 10th
)
out-of-bounds (adj.—not out of bounds—see
CMS,
Table 6.1)
overconditioned (adj.—not over-
conditioned—see CMS
Table 6.1)
overexamined (adj.—not over-examined—
see CMS Table
6.1)
overexcited (adj.—not over-excited—see
W’s 10th )
oversensitive (adj.—not over-sensitive—see
W’s 10th )
paper-mâché (adj.—not paper mâché—see
W’s 10th )
pink-and-beige (adj.—not pink and beige—
see CMS, Table
6.1)
president (n.: a general term—not President:
as in President Nixon)
procathedral (n.: as a general term—not Pro-
Cathedral and not
pro-cathedral—
see CMS Table
6.1)
Putumayo (n., a river flowing into the
Amazon—not
Putumaya—see W’s
10th,
“Geographical Names”)
quay (n.—not Quay—see W’s 10th )
racquets (2nd speling in W’s 10th
)
rainwater (n.—not rain water—see CMS
Table 6.1)
raspberry-jam (adj.—not raspberry jam—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
realert (v.—not re-alert—see CMS Table
6.1)
reentered (v.—not re-entered—see W’s 10th
)
reignited (adj.—not re-ignited—see CMS
Table 6.1)
reimposed (v. form—not re-imposed—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
remarriage (n.—not re-marriage—see CMS
Table 6.1)
repointed (adj.—not re-pointed—see CMS
Table 6.1)
republic (n.: as a general term—not Republic,
as in Weimar Republic)
R (continued)
Republican (as adj. and n.: capitalized when
referring to specific
party in Ireland
ca. 1916—see CMS
7.57-7.59)
scantily clad (adj.—not scantily-clad see
CMS
Table 6.1)
schoolbooks (n.—not school books—see W’s
10th )
schoolmate (n.—not school mate—see W’s
10th )
shortcomings (n.—not short-comings—see
W’s 10th )
shortcut (n.—not short cut—see W’s 10th
)
slaughterhouse (n.—not slaughter house—see
W’s 10th )
sleepwalk (v.—not sleep-walk—see W’s
10th )
soda bread (not soda-bread—see W’s 10th
)
so-far-unspoken (adj.—not so far unspoken
see CMS Table
6.1)
soi-disant (French word—not soi disant—see
W’s 10th )
Southern Ireland (a specific geographical
region)
spilt (2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
spun (past tense of spin—not span—see W’s
10th )
stepmother (n.—not step-mother—see W’s
10th )
stableboy (n.—not stable boy—see W III)
stiff-bristled (adj.—not stiff bristled—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
stone-pillared (adj.—not stone pillared—see
W’s 10th )
straight backed (as adj. after noun—not
straight-backed—see CMS
Table
6.1)
subcontinent (n.—not sub-continent—see
W’s 10th )
suffragette (n.—not Suffragette—see W’s
10th )
sunbaked (adj.—not sun-baked—see W’s
10th )
Swinburne (the poet—not Swinbourne—W’s
10th )
swollen eyed (adj. after n.—not swollen-
eyed—see CMS
Table 6.1)
table tilting (n.—not table-tilting—see CMS
Table 6.1)
tea party (n.—not tea-party—see W’s 10th
)
thank-yous (pl. n.—not thank yous—see W’s
10th )
theatre (not theater: author uses 2nd
spelling
in W’s 10th)
towards (2nd spelling in W’s 10th
)
travelled (v.—2nd spelling in W’s 10th)
T (continued)
turned-out (adj.—not turned out—see CMS
Table 6.1)
twelfth-century (adj.—not twelfth century—
see CMS Table
6.1)
underestimated (v.—not under-estimated—
see W’s 10th
)
wastepaper (adj.—not waste paper—see W’s
10th )
weekend (n.—not week-end—see W’s 10th
)
well-timed (adj.—not well timed—see W’s
10th )
whatever (not what ever—see W’s 10th
)
WC (for Water Closet—not W. C.—see W’s
10th )
well situated (as adjective after a noun—not
well-situated—CMS
Table 6.1)
well scrubbed (adj.—not well-scrubbed—
CMS
Table 6.1)
whenever (adv.—not when ever—see W’s
10th )
wrongdoing (n.—not wrong-doing—see W’s
10th )
wrought-iron (adj.—not wrought iron—see
CMS
Table 6.1)
Zouave (n.—not zouave: see W’s 10th
and
query to author on
page 11 of ms.)
zeppelins (n.—not Zeppelins—see W’s 10th
)