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Death of the Hyphen

September 21, 2007

Reuters reports on how tens of thousands of formerly hyphenated words have lost their hyphenation in the latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. LINK→

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2 Comments on Death of the Hyphen:

  1. Gravatar This & That says:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Maybe the hyphen is no -longer required, but I expect it will die a very slow death. Many people will always use that punctuation mark!

  2. Gravatar Pam says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    No, say it isn’t so. I would be certain to lose sleep if there were no more hyphenated compound modifiers!


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