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  • You can even enable a "Hyphenation" mode, where long words at the ends of lines get split, thus fitting more text on the screen.

    PalmAddicts 2009

  • The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Hyphenation, Descriptivism, andRules says:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Otherwise Incorrect” 2009

  • The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Hyphenation, Descriptivism, andRules says:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Otherwise Incorrect” 2009

  • As the Lincoln swept through this now remarkably prosperous swath of Montgomery County, Kydd happily pointed out to his captive audience the clusters of official buildings scattered through the landscape: the Office of Pet Statistics, the Interstate Motto Commission, the Job Duplication Agency, the Jargon Review Board, the Federal Lost Application Administration, the Busy-Signal Corps, the Internal Hyphenation Service, and the National Center for Needless Expenditure.

    The Dick Cheney Code Henry Beard 2004

  • Nothing to it—satisfies the need for the new: “Hyphenation gives the impression,” says Frank Abate, former editor in chief of the U.S. Dictionaries program at Oxford University Press, “that the compound is novel, imaginative or requires some background knowledge.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • As the Lincoln swept through this now remarkably prosperous swath of Montgomery County, Kydd happily pointed out to his captive audience the clusters of official buildings scattered through the landscape: the Office of Pet Statistics, the Interstate Motto Commission, the Job Duplication Agency, the Jargon Review Board, the Federal Lost Application Administration, the Busy-Signal Corps, the Internal Hyphenation Service, and the National Center for Needless Expenditure.

    The Dick Cheney Code Henry Beard 2004

  • As the Lincoln swept through this now remarkably prosperous swath of Montgomery County, Kydd happily pointed out to his captive audience the clusters of official buildings scattered through the landscape: the Office of Pet Statistics, the Interstate Motto Commission, the Job Duplication Agency, the Jargon Review Board, the Federal Lost Application Administration, the Busy-Signal Corps, the Internal Hyphenation Service, and the National Center for Needless Expenditure.

    The Dick Cheney Code Henry Beard 2004

  • Nothing to it—satisfies the need for the new: “Hyphenation gives the impression,” says Frank Abate, former editor in chief of the U.S. Dictionaries program at Oxford University Press, “that the compound is novel, imaginative or requires some background knowledge.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • As the Lincoln swept through this now remarkably prosperous swath of Montgomery County, Kydd happily pointed out to his captive audience the clusters of official buildings scattered through the landscape: the Office of Pet Statistics, the Interstate Motto Commission, the Job Duplication Agency, the Jargon Review Board, the Federal Lost Application Administration, the Busy-Signal Corps, the Internal Hyphenation Service, and the National Center for Needless Expenditure.

    The Dick Cheney Code Henry Beard 2004

  • | Hyphenation and capitalisation has been standardised.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

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