Mishy-phens

September 24th, 2007

Thanks to fellow tech author Graham Campbell for telling me about the following list of true-life examples of badly hyphenated words:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/f615e0a4acfa21f1

My favourites are:

arse-
nal

fun-
draiser

lighty-
ears

rear-
ranged

pronoun-
cement

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