Word: hyphenism
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...hard enough for hyphenees right now. Those aforementioned cruel SAT bubbles only allow space for last names fifteen letters long. “Hinniker-Schoenberg” turns into “HINNIKERSCHOENB.” After they get into college, hyphenees also face discrimination based on what that hyphen says about their background. During the Pring-Wilson trial, CourtTV analysts speculated that the defendant’s hyphen might make him appear richer and haughtier than he deserved. The result? An innocent hyphen might be responsible for Pring-Wilson’s six to eight years in the slammer...
...network’s anchors have discovered every possible euphemism for “Hispanic”—our favorite was a pointed reference to Colono’s black headband—and even spent time last week ruminating on the possible effect of the hyphen in Pring-Wilson’s last name...
...aside concerns about such minor matters as sex, money and career. Lynne Truss is here to help you with the really important issues--such as the proper placement of apostrophes, the six uses of the comma and the preservation of the hyphen. Truss, a British journalist and novelist, is a self-proclaimed stickler for punctuation. Not for its own sake, mind you, but because, as she writes in Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Gotham Books; 209 pages), "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning...
...Make sure the news execs finally get around to updating the form bible. “Boo-ya” is spelled with a hyphen and no “h” at the end. “Hos” (the plural of “ho”) has no “e.” Get it right, people...
...Philippe lived on no man’s hyphen,” Gates said. “He was an African and an America, a writer and an editor, a son and a lover...