[Ads-l] to coalition-build

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 26 21:35:45 UTC 2016


Ted Cruz's Communications Director tells CNN that "Ted is out there trying
to coalition-build."

But becausesuch formations are more syntactical than lexical, she naturally
didn't say the hyphen.

JL

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