OED Hyphen Cull

[AngelB]

The shorter Oxford English Dictionary cuts the hyphen out of 16,000 words article here

Geraint

The lights are on but nobody's home, my elevator doesn't go to the top. I'm not playing with a full deck, I've lost my marbles. Barenaked Ladies - Crazy

 

[tcsbiz]

I always thought the words were spelled that way. I never hyphenated any of those.

 

[donbott]

HOLEINONE!
Thankyou!

DonBott

Does not play well with others

 

[xwb]

Strange, like tcbiz, I too thought the words were always spelt without hyphens.

I don't normally use hyphens and I always switch off hyphens when word processing otherwise you strange stuff like not-ice and leg-end separated over two lines when it should actually have been notice and legend.

 

[strongm]

>strange stuff like not-ice and leg-end

Hmm, a decent modern word processor out to have a hyphenation dictionary that prevents things like that ...

 

[p5wizard]

It ought to have picked out that out also ;-)

p5

 

[strongm]

oops ...