I, too, am pleased with the dropped hyphen in teenager. However, I am no fan of host as a verb. Perhaps it is because I work in sports and I see nouns like "birdie" turned into verbs. I know our language changes, but we have to stop those kinds of bastardizations.<p>P.S. For those of you who know nothing about sports, birdie is a golf term. :) <p> <blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Gary Kirchherr:
The new AP Stylebook goes on sale in August, and our favorite reference book will have some interesting changes. Among them: AP has changed its spelling of "teenager" to drop the hyphen; and deleted its listing saying that "host" can't be a verb.<p>Good call, guys. Welcome to the 21st century. Now, see what you can do about "work force" and "best seller," two of your other exceptions to Webster's that serve no obvious purpose.<p>Personally, I'll be curious to see if the new Stylebook still refers to "Western Samoa" (the South Pacific island nation dropped the "Western" five years ago), or added a reference to the Girl Scouts' "Daisy Scouts," among other outright gaffes and omissions in the current edition.<p>Here's the link for the E&P story online (you may have to cut and paste a line at a time):<p>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&nc id=90&e=1&cid=90&u=/ep/20020719/en_bpiep/new_ap__stylebook__includes_taliban__mp3s<hr></blockquote><p>[ July 20, 2002: Message edited by: Tim Hathcock ]</p>