Here's an unintentionally amusing recent headline from the BBC News site - and one that demonstrates the importance of hyphens:
Celery eating paramedic suspended
So eating a paramedic is presumably not acceptable behaviour for celery.
Quite a shocking story, though - and here it is in full. Hopefully the BBC hasn't added a hyphen by the time you look...
1 comment:
Great one. My former nighteditor used to grind on about hyphens and changed meanings. It all fell into place for me when I understood the difference between little used car and little-used car.
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