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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:02 -0700
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"The Oxford English Dictionary has dropped the hyphen from 16,000 
compound words on the grounds that we are all too busy for hyphens.

	John Humphrys, writing in the Daily Mail of 24 September 2007



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