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LETTING YOUR COMPUTER AUTO-HYPHENATE, BECAUSE IT WILL … hyphenate proper nouns, e.g. the names of cities or people have more than two consecutive end-of-line hyphens hyphenate the last word of a paragraph divide a word so as to mislead, e.g. the-rapist; read-just; ex-tractor hyphenate a short word and put just one or two characters onContinue reading “5 FURTHER CRIMES”

Can’t remember where I first heard this phrase, but it stayed in my brain as an amusing (if uncomfortable) image. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it means to be in a situation where it is difficult to decide what to do, usually because both of your two choices of action would cause problems, e.g.: UN troops are in a cleft stick: something has toContinue reading “Borne aloft on a cleft stick?”