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John Varela

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Dec 14, 2009, 1:46:49 PM12/14/09
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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.

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Steve Hayes

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Dec 14, 2009, 4:02:45 PM12/14/09
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On 14 Dec 2009 18:46:49 GMT, "John Varela" <OLDl...@verizon.net> wrote:

>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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Lars Eighner

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Dec 14, 2009, 4:02:04 PM12/14/09
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In our last episode,
<dxizd0mOwXzR-pn2-tMN0JWWH8ZWR@localhost>,
the lovely and talented John Varela
broadcast on alt.usage.english:

> 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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Mike Lyle

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Dec 14, 2009, 5:12:13 PM12/14/09
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Steve Hayes wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2009 18:46:49 GMT, "John Varela" <OLDl...@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.

Ten tasteless Texans timidly torturing a terrified titmouse.

The noblemen were _nonchalantly_ nibbling.

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Mike.


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