[Homestead] Writer and copy editor alert
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Wed Sep 26 18:44:08 EDT 2007
A Farewell to Hyphens
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary unburdens 16,000 words of their
hyphens.
By Brian Braiker
Newsweek
Updated: 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
Sept. 26, 2007 - Hyphen, line on my page, dash in my copy. My joiner
of words, my separator of syllables. Hy-phen: the breath of the lungs
bursting forth from the diaphragm to loosely bite the lower lip and
exhale again on two. Hy. Phen.
We never got a chance to say goodbye.
The whole gosh-darn British-centric but Amurican-influenced situation
may be found at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20998371/site/newsweek/
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