LL-L "Orthography" 2005.01.20 (03) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2005.01.19 (05) [E]


Heather Rendall wrote:
"I used 'no-one' and then tried 'no one' and having found an exactly similar
number, realised that Google doesn't differentiate between the two."

I always use "no one", probably because hyphens look anachronistic, as in
"to-day" or "to-morrow". On the other hand I am annoyed by the increasing
divestment of hypens in words such as "co-operation" > "cooperation" and
"e-mail" > "email", which look to me as if they should be pronounced
hideously as [kyp'ere:S at n] and [em'e:jl].

Then of course there is the increasing acceptability of text speak - or,
rather, txtspk. Hideous, hideous.

Go raibh maith agat,

Criostóir.

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