Use of hyphen in "New-York"

[Mark Mandel]

I accidentally sent an edited summary of the replies to the list instead of
to Jesse Sheidlower. Fortunately, it was rejected as too long. I have posted
it at

http://ldc.upenn.edu/~mamandel/public/onomastics/New-York.txt

Editing included removing all email addresses.

Mark A. Mandel

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