A closed compound word is one with no spaces or hyphens, such askeyboardandbookstore. Becausehigh schoolis not a closed compound word, it’s incorrect to spell ithighschool. A hyphenated compound word is one with hyphens between the component words, such asmother-in-lawandfifty-three. Becaus...
“Failed state” is an understatement to describe Haiti. It’s one of the poorest, most dangerous places on earth. You can scarcely call it a nation. Gangs run the government. It’s been eight years since the last election in Haiti. But no matter; the elections are all rigged anyway. ...
the suitcase was carried and parting gifts stowed away in the checked baggage despite their bulk. For the longest time, a purse that showed the different neighbourhoods of a bumpy city where one had gone during undulating quirks of fate was carried everywhere...
Added to this picture is Elizabeth’s grant to Oxford, in 1586, at the height of wartime preparations for the Spanish Armada. The grant consisted of one thousand pounds per year, paid according to the same formula used to provide funds for Secretary Francis Walsingham and his secret service. ...
lay down help a lot too; they're as pithy and pointed as those on Watt's excellent LP from last year, Hyphenated-Man, and I can hear a few re-fitted Minutemen riffs rattling around. Meltzer wanders around and over the music like a stumbling priest, sometimes evoking a drooling ...
we are told,than to defend our own. The fact that in the process, we are moving increasingly closer to an open armed conflict with a country that has over six thousand nuclear warheads, many of them pointed at our country, doesn’t seem to matter to whomever is in control of the Oval...
Her English name was decided upon, declared to all. As for her Hebrew name, there’s a catch. Her Hebrew name, Malka, means “Queen.” And though it’s customary to give babies a hyphenated Hebrew name, Gabi and I decided not to pick her second Hebrew name. One day, Anna will deci...
‘one-thousand’ in its title. The most challenging were ‘young offender’ and ‘liar’… but I managed to pull together a first draft and they didn’t stick out like a sore thumb. I also got ‘Republic’ and ‘New Order’ in there too. After Gav was done with it, he had ...
In the case of a non-bare repository, your working tree—which I like to call work-tree, hyphenated, as one word, for short—contains a.gitdirectory.1That is, you might do: cd proj to enter the work-tree for your project (which you've calledproj), and inprojthere is a.gitdirector...
The truth is, no matter what one wears, it’s the overall personality that says more about a person. You may be wearing thousand dollar blings or strutting with all of Coco Chanel and Alexander McQueen’s creations, but if you are as fake as a counterfeit Louis Vuitton Speedy from Laos,...