LL-L "Orthography" 2006.02.10 (02) [E]

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10 February 2006 * Volume 02
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2006.02.09 (02) [E]


  From: R. F. Hahn
  Subject: Orthography

  Folks,

  In one of today's local newspapers I found in a headline an interesting
  example of ambiguity due to omission of orthographic compounding 
(including
  hyphenation):

  "Unemployment Benefits Hearing"
>From Paul Finlow-Bates:

This reminds me of an ad for a Public Service job in a newspaper in the late 
sixties in England.  The job, apparently, included sickness and other 
benefits!  Makes you wonder what the downside was.

Paul F-B 

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