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
