Its surprising to see such a vital part of Grammar being dumped that too after decades of proud existence. The sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has knocked the hyphens out of 16,000 words, many of them two-word compound nouns. Sad for many lazy minds like me, now the luxury of using the hypen between any two words to bring it close, is history.
In a way it seems good; now that it brought the pigeon and the hole together (pigeonhole in lieu of pigeon-hole) and pushed the pot away from the belly (pot belly in lieu of pot-belly). 😉
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