wedded to the hyphen

[James C Stalker]

Ah, the ironies of fate.  Incredibly rich(assuming he patented and retained
control of the patent), but he lost his hyphen.

Jim Stalker
stalker at msu.edu



Arnold M. Zwicky writes:

> from verlyn klinkenborg's NYT Book Review (7/4/04) review of david
> howard bain's The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge
> to Go West, p. 6:
>
> -----------
> ...we also meet a lot of people who are less well known, like Edwin E.
> Perkins, late of Hastings, Neb.  Perkins was an inventor whose
> imagination was wedded to the hyphen.  He created Motor-Vigor,
> Glos-Comb and Jel-Aid before finally perfecting the product that made
> him wealthy, Kool-Aid.
> -----------
>
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), giggling in hyphens
>



James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University