Wednesday, January 8, 2014

punctuation - How should one punctuate “upper right most”?



For upper right most, I’ve seen it written upper-right most, upper-right-most, and with no hyphens at all.



What makes the most sense to me is upper rightmost, but it’s hard to tell that upper right is the adjective to which most is being applied.


Answer



As John Lawler comments, and as this chart makes clear,...






...rightmost isn't normally hyphenated. And there's no need for one in upper rightmost.


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