_myself_, _nevertheless_, _nobody_, _nothing_ (but
_no one_), _nowadays_, _railroad_, _themselves_, _together_,
_typewritten_, _wherever_, _without_, _workshop_, _yourself_,
_newspaper_, _sunset_.

=e. For words that do not come within the scope of rules, consult an
up-to-date dictionary.= Compounds tend, with the passing of time, to grow
together. Once men wrote _steam boat_, later _steam-boat_, and finally
_steamboat_. New-coined words are usually hyphenated; old words are
often written solid. The degree of intimacy between the parts of a
compound word affects usage; thus we write _sun-motor_, but _sunbeam_;
_birth-rate_, but _birthday_; _cooling-room_, but _bedroom_;
_non-conductor_, but _nonsense_. The ease with which a vowel blends with
the consonant of a syllable adjoining it affects usage; thus
_self-evident_, but _selfsame_; _non-existent_, but _nondescript_;
_un-American_, but _unwise_. Many compounds, however, are still
uncontrolled by usage; whether they should be written as two words or
one, whether with or without the hyphen, the dictionaries themselves do
not agree.

Exercise:

Copy the following expressions, inserting hyphens where they
are necessary: _twenty two years old_, _twenty two dollar
bills_ _make forty dollars_, _twenty seven eighths inch
boards_, _a normal school graduate_, _two handled boxes_, _a
cloth covered basket_, _blood red sun_, _water tight
compartment_, _sixty horse power motor_, _seven dollar bathing
suits_, _a happy go lucky fellow_, _germ destroying powder_,
_he had a son in law_, _passers by on the street_, _the kick
off is at three o'clock_, _dark complexioned woman_, _silver
tongued orator_, _a dish like valley_, _a rope like tail_, _a
fish shaped cloud_, _a touch me not expression_, _will o' the
wisp_, _well to do merchant_, _rough and tumble existence_.

=79.= SPELLING LIST

The English language comprises about 450,000 words. Of these a student
uses about 4000 (although he may understand more than twice that number
when he encounters them in sentences). Of these, in turn, not more than
four or five hundred are frequently misspelled. The following list
includes nearly all of the words which give serious trouble. Certain
American colleges using this list require of freshmen an accuracy of
ninety per cent.

absurd
academy
=accept=
=accidentally=
=accommodate=
accumulate