The end of the hyphen? and other stories
The Oxford English Dictionary has reported that 16,000 hyphenated words have been dispensed with in the current edition. Losses include:
Don’t despair for those that are interested in environmental and other issues there are plenty of new hyphen unambiguous words:
All will be two words. While the following have been amalgamated:
There are going to be some irritating instances will Spell-check or should it be Spell Check or Spellcheck?
My Spell Check says the last one is incorrect, but the first two are correct!