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In your face, hyphens
« on: September 21, 2007, 12:21:04 PM » |
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Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on http://news.yahoo.com/s/n...0dTuJ1410FVgyz9yTxQDtiBIF LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.
And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby).
The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books.
"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week.
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Some of the 16,000 hyphenation changes in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition:
Formerly hyphenated words split in two:
fig leaf
hobby horse
ice cream
pin money
pot belly
test tube
water bed
Formerly hyphenated words unified in one:
bumblebee
chickpea
crybaby
leapfrog
logjam
lowlife
pigeonhole
touchline
waterborne
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2007, 12:29:09 PM » |
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It's OK. E-A-G-L-E! will keep the hyphen alive.
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2007, 12:44:32 PM » |
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U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2007, 12:52:07 PM » |
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IronyThey are but they aren't.
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2007, 01:54:24 PM » |
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It's OK. E-A-G-L-E! will keep the hyphen alive.
lol! I most certainly will!  |
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2007, 03:44:29 PM » |
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2007, 05:31:40 PM » |
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Interesting article.
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2007, 05:31:53 PM » |
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It's OK. E-A-G-L-E! will keep the hyphen alive.
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2007, 05:33:48 PM » |
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2007, 05:59:02 PM » |
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2007, 06:13:43 PM » |
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2007, 06:16:20 PM » |
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As long as they don't mess with the semi-colon (which still has a hyphen).
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2007, 06:16:50 PM » |
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2007, 07:07:21 PM » |
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Yes, but the point is to try to use as many hyphens as possible.
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Re: In your face, hyphens
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2007, 07:43:40 PM » |
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