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I was asked to post these examples of hyphenation. Can somebody explain to
me how they happen. I think it's fair to say that WordStar 2 would have done
better.
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From the Toronto Globe and Mail
Al-ltrans
1,-222 Not the first time they've hyphenated numbers
superb-rewery
Pen-nzoil's
coin-cide
Nation-sBank
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From the Toronto Star
hardli-ness
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David (the puzzled idiot) Ibbetson
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