Word: hyphenated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letters plus a hyphen, Sammataro-Hutchins is a bit much. Still, time has not been kind either to the Floyd-Bells, Church-Smiths and other conscientiously nonsexist, nonconformist couples who embraced hyphenation in the '70s as a banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before...
Jones. What a wonderful surname. Clear. One syllable. Perfectly pronounceable. No hyphen...
...case, the Sammataro-Hutchinses have had it. They left the bar out on their youngest child's birth certificate. Even so, their eldest son Tynan, 8, wears the name with pride. "I'm the only one in class who has a hyphen." Perverse, perhaps, but some of us like it that...
...discussions" refers to any talks at all, and "award-winning journalist" to any reporter employed three or more years who still has a pulse. A totally disappointing report, containing nothing but yawn-inducing truisms, can always be described as a "ground-breaking study." The most exciting news on the hyphen front is that adventurous journalese users, like late-medieval theologians, are experimenting with new forms, to wit, multihyphen adjectives. So far, "actor- turnedpolitician," which can be found just to the left of Clint Eastwood's name in any story about Carmel, Calif., is the most beloved two-hyphen entry, while...