I saw this in a software test-plan document.
Problem:
“Ready-ness” — with the letter Y followed by a hyphen in the middle — is a misspelled noun.
Explanation:
As with many other words that end with the letter Y, the “y” in “ready” must be changed to “i” when the suffix N-E-S-S is appended to a word such as “ready”.
Furthermore, no hyphen should appear in the word “readiness”.
Beyond these two problems, there was no need to capitalize “System” and “Ready-ness”.
For fun, I searched Google for each of the following words (with the quotation marks) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:
- “readiness” — with the letter I in the middle — 17,700,000 matches
- “ready-ness” — with the letter Y and a hyphen in the middle — 1,130 matches
This tells me that Web authors have written the word correctly vs. incorrectly by a ratio of 15,664-to-1, which is superb.
Solution:
“… it’s reliant upon system readiness …”