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

[Laurence Urdang]

In unresponsive reply to Barnhart's note, anymore seems to have passed, unnoticed but by me, from being two words (and so pronounced in my speech) to a single word, without a hyphenated transition.
  L. Urdang
  Old Lyme

Barnhart <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
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American Dialect Society writes:
>People are
>>not confident about using hyphens anymore


>From the Thorndike-Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary (c. 1951), the
long usage note at _hyphen_ quotes John Benbow (author of _Manuscript and
Proof_, the style book of OUP-NY):

"If you take hyphens seriously you will surely go mad."

Regards,
David

Barnhart at highlands.com

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