Fwd: Hyphens: Death-Knell. Or Death Knell (NY Times)

[Joel S. Berson]

 From a colleague:

>_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/weekinreview/07mcgrath.html?_r=1&oref=slogi
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>(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/weekinreview/07mcgrath.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)
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>October 7, 2007
>Death-Knell. Or Death Knell.
>By CHARLES  McGRATH
>
>THE Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the scaled-down, two-volume  version
>of the mammoth 20-volume O.E.D., just got a
>little shorter. With the  dispatch
>of a waiter flicking away flyspecks, the editor, Angus Stevenson,  eliminated
>some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition,
>published last month.  “People are
>not confident about using hyphens anymore,” he
>said. “They’re not  really
>sure what they’re for.”
>
>[SEE URL FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE.....     rr]]

Joel

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