Saturday, May 3, 2014

The Importance of Hyphens


Mr Graham's promoted post showed up in my Facebook stream.

Mr Graham is from the USA. Hence he may well not know meaning of the word 'tool' used in British English when applied to a person.

Of course, if he had written 'done-for-you', as the sentence demanded, I wouldn't have laughed my socks off so much.
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