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Donna Richoux  
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 More options May 21 2004, 4:24 pm
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From: t...@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 22:24:28 +0200
Local: Fri, May 21 2004 4:24 pm
Subject: Mishy-phens 2004
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A discussion elsewhere on mishy-phens prompted me to check my notes.
It's been three and a half years since I posted a list of the
"mishy-phens" that I've saved, so it seems high time to do it again.

I limit the list to genuine line-ending mishy-phens that have been seen
hyphenated this way in print.

SECTION I. FROM THE 2000 LIST, in alphabetical order.

arse-
nal

babys-
itter

bee-
fhearts

chil-
drearing

code-
pendents

disc-
losing

flys-
watter

fun-
draiser

home-
opathic

imp-
aired

lifes-
pan

lighty-
ears

male-
volently

men-
swear

misty-
ped

Scarboro-
ugh

ong-
oing

rear-
ranged

troubles-
hooting

war-
rant

whites-
pace

SECTION II. ADDITIONS 2000-2004

acade-
mics

breads-
ticks

cave-
ats

eve-
ryone

delay-
ering ("has taken out middle management...")

mean-
dering

minds-
laughter (when "mind-slaughter" was clearly meant)

PlayS-
tation

pronoun-
cement

SECTION III. MISCELLANEOUS

Not hyphenated, but otherwise close (a mishy phen?):

  its
  elf

Other sorts of misleading word divisions are treated under "Misles."

--
Best - Donna Richoux


 
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