[Ads-l] Another compound noun gets verbed

Mark Mandel markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 31 03:44:01 UTC 2020


Did they really hyphenate "skin on"?

MAM

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 9:30 AM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu> wrote:

> I know we post lots of these, but this was just too good not to share.
> Came from a mailing list for air fryer owners:
>
>
> 1.                   The skin of acorn squash cooks soft and is totally
> edible if you want to keep the skin-on.
>
> If you prefer to air fryer the squash with the skin off, then just peel
> the squash before you cut into it.
>
>
> Geoffrey S. Nathan
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