wedded to the hyphen

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:00 PM -0400 7/4/04, James C Stalker wrote:
>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
>

Maybe he lost his hyphen riding his bi-cycle.

L

>
>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