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"LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. "
New English Dictionary article
Full Version: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
At first I have read "hymens".
Such short-cuts are happening in every language-take German, for instance. I am wonderin' what low-life noroms™ are inventin' it. No matter, what is decided, traditionalists will carry on.
Such short-cuts are happening in every language-take German, for instance. I am wonderin' what low-life noroms™ are inventin' it. No matter, what is decided, traditionalists will carry on.
I didn't even know Germans had hymens. I thought they just crammed everything up into one word when they wanted to get complex.
Some German girls fer sure still have.
What was lost? Umlauts became less common, replaced with 'ue', etc, Scharfes S seems to be under extinction, the once-long words got shortened, to name a few.
What was lost? Umlauts became less common, replaced with 'ue', etc, Scharfes S seems to be under extinction, the once-long words got shortened, to name a few.
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QUOTE(Le Gimp @ Sep 21 2007, 08:03 PM) 
Where is Six?
Six is a Collins-COBUILD man, who's already been through this mini-revolution.
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