New-fangled word boundaries
Gary Feng notes that hyphens are going out of style in British English. Hyphens are, it seems to me, an interesting intermediary step on the way to word hood, word-hood, wordhood. The Onion uses hyphens to good effect to give an air of antiquity to certain of their pieces, such as this one.
I’d say their odds of success are no better than fifty-fifty.
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