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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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/