Less hyphenated words in new dictionary
October 1, 2009 – 11:46 amReuters reports on the new absence of so many previous hyphenated words in the new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Some of the 16,000 hyphenation changes in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition:
Formerly hyphenated words split in two:
fig leaf
hobby horse
ice cream
pin money
pot belly
test tube
water bed
Formerly hyphenated words unified in one:
bumblebee
chickpea
crybaby
leapfrog
logjam
lowlife
pigeonhole
touchline
waterborne