"These included Kentucky farm-girl-turned-auto plant organizer
Caroline Dawson Davis..."
A farm girl turned into an auto sounds like one of those Transformer
toys my grandsons like so much.
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John Varela
Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for email
>There have been a lot of strange hyphenations in The Washington Post
>lately. Here is one from an article about feminists in the 1930s
>and '40s, on page B4 of the Sunday, 13 December issue:
>
>"These included Kentucky farm-girl-turned-auto plant organizer
>Caroline Dawson Davis..."
>
>A farm girl turned into an auto sounds like one of those Transformer
>toys my grandsons like so much.
Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nonpareils
Ten automated Kentucky farm girls organising plants.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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> There have been a lot of strange hyphenations in The Washington Post
> lately. Here is one from an article about feminists in the 1930s
> and '40s, on page B4 of the Sunday, 13 December issue:
> "These included Kentucky farm-girl-turned-auto plant organizer
> Caroline Dawson Davis..."
> A farm girl turned into an auto sounds like one of those Transformer
> toys my grandsons like so much.
Yup. It is hyphens all the way through or not at all.
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Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/> Warbama's Afghaninam day: 12
307.8 hours since Warbama declared Viet Nam II.
Warbama: An LBJ for the Twenty-First century. No hope. No change.
Ten tasteless Texans timidly torturing a terrified titmouse.
The noblemen were _nonchalantly_ nibbling.
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Mike.