There's a good illustration at http://www.purley.eu/H3.htm of why compound adjectives should always be hyphenated: "a quarter of its 1700 odd homes".
Keith
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Thanks. Extremely eccentric - see views on Purley in Surrey. These have
(needless to say) infiltrated the Wikipedia entry for Purley on Thames
[sic].
John Briggs
On 03/01/2012 11:04, Keith Briggs wrote:
> http://www.purley.eu/
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> From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Jones
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> Who wrote it? Is it one of the usual suspects?
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> John Chapman ([log in to unmask])
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