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rockfsh 
"Laugh, Love, Cheer"
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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 Posted - 09/21/2007 : 22:48:50
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Or would that be "hyphens" you're referring to?  |
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rockfsh
"Laugh, Love, Cheer"
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Posted - 09/21/2007 : 22:52:54
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Originally posted by Se�n
Or would that be "hyphens" you're referring to?
yes I'm sooo upset  |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 09/21/2007 : 22:56:32
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From the article...
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
Although it seems somewhat arbitrary whether the hyphen was replaced by a space or the words were concatenated, i.e., can anyone see any reason not to do it like this? :-
figleaf
hobbyhorse
icecream
pinmoney
potbelly
testtube
waterbed
bumble bee
chick pea
cry baby
leap frog
log jam
low life
pigeon hole
touch line
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 12:47:41
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 14:03:43
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quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
From the article...
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
Although it seems somewhat arbitrary whether the hyphen was replaced by a space or the words were concatenated, i.e., can anyone see any reason not to do it like this? :-
figleaf
hobbyhorse
icecream
pinmoney
potbelly
testtube
waterbed
bumble bee
chick pea
cry baby
leap frog
log jam
low life
pigeon hole
touch line
water borne
I've never seen "ice cream" hyphenated and it's definitely not a single word. Same with "bumblebee," "crybaby," "leapfrog," "lowlife," and "chickpea." I don't know what kind of English folks have been writing across the pond but these "new spellings" are the way we've always been doing them.
Icecream? Ice-cream? Um...no. It's ice cream, which is shortened from the original "iced cream." And yes, as a New Englander I consider myself an authority on the subject.  |
Edited by - Downtown on 09/24/2007 14:04:22 |
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Hyphens wiped out
