On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:54:19 +1200
Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:43:00 +0200
> > Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 13/08/15 03:51, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > > >         For those in the UK, We in North America could
> > > > occasionally receive BBC1 from transmitters across the British
> > > > Aisles when Solar activity was high. 
> > > 
> > > British Aisles??
> > > 
> > 
> > A nation of supermarket-keepers.
> 
> Why does there seem to be preocupation with hyphens these days, or am
> I imagining things?
> 

It was a play on 'shopkeepers', all one word, so a hyphen gave a better
approximation.

Hyphens are dying out, they used to be much more common, and probably
when Napoleon was first reported, 'shop-keepers' would have been used.

-- 
Joe

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