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["Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>]

On 9/26/07, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
>
> 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. (snip)
>
> The whole gosh-darn British-centric but Amurican-influenced situation
> may be found at:


Oh, good humor. I'm in the middle of reading three books (the ADD in me
coming out, I suppose). One of them is Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero
Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.

I had been working on reading just one at a time, but then I misplaced it
and picked up another. I had misplaced this darn book and found it
yesterday--in a deep pile in my office that needed attention. But now you
have more info than you needed (or wanted). At least I'm reading again,
though I lack the speed I once had. When the boys were younger I went
through many years when I never read a single book--though they were read to
at bedtime.

Lisa