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16,000 less things to look for. what will you do with all the time?
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Farewell To The Mighty Hyphen

* Grammar purists, get ready to have your head explode: The new Oxford English Dictionary is getting rid of hyphenated words. [Newsweek]
* The fickle gods of the English language have decided to do away with 16,000 hyphens.
* Some words will now be joined to become one. Others will just be divorced, their life-long connection to one another amputated.
* Farewell to “bumble-bee,â€
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WTF!!! 8O

My head is not exploding, but this is just worng.
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Now we will have to get updates for the Firefox browser and Microshafts Word speel chekkers. Er... Spill cheekers... Sppool chuckers... Spele chikeres...
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Zak Tyler wrote:16,000 less things to look for. what will you do with all the time?
That's not how my brain works....this will actually consume more time! Whenever I hit these mistakes when reading, my brain comes to an abrupt halt, backs up, and works overtime to try to make sense of and be sure of the real meaning of what's been written. When I was younger, I could read about a page a minute; now, pages take 2-3 minutes each.
this mornings show prep wrote: Farewell To The Mighty Hyphen

* Grammar purists, get ready to have your head explode: The new Oxford English Dictionary is getting rid of hyphenated words.

Then, it will be wrong. But isn't the Oxford the British dictionary?
* The fickle gods of the English language have decided to do away with 16,000 hyphens.
* Some words will now be joined to become one. Others will just be divorced, their life-long connection to one another amputated.
* Farewell to “bumble-bee,â€
"I don't know the same things you don't know."

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Will this mean Ann-Margret will become Ann Margret or Annmargret?
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Oh, it's on now...
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