Consolidation of personal nouns
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First-rate, second-rate, and other terms signi- fying degrees, are compounded. So are the titles of First-lieutenant, Second-lieutenant, First-mate, Second -mate, when used before the name of the person; but when these titles occur without the name of the person they are made separate words.
Numerals combined with adjectives or nouns and used as qualifying adjectives take the hyphen.
- four-mile run
- four-story
- one-sided
- three-legged stool
- twenty-acre lot
- two-faced
- two-foot rule
- two-hundred-dollar note
APPROVED COMPOUNDS OF KINDRED
- foster-brother
- grand-uncle
- great-aunt
- great-grandfather
- heir-at-law
- mother-in-law
- second-cousin
- son-in-law
Kinship words in frequent use are consolidated
- godfather
- godmother
- godson
- grandfather
- grandmother
- stepdaughter
- stepfather
- stepmother
- stepson
PERSONAL COMPOUNDS
Compound nouns ending with man or woman should be consolidated : as, Englishman, Frenchwoman, oysterman, warehouseman, needlewoman, workingman, marketwoman, etc.
