![]() Herein lies the hyphen’s beauty, and its perversity. And most commonly, as in the headline above, it glues together compound structures. It divides words at the end of lines in typeset material. ![]() It punctuates phone numbers, ISBN codes on books and other strings of numerals. The hyphen, which shares a key with the underscore mark on the standard keyboard, has several functions. Zoologists have discovered a mysterious new fungus that is killing the world’s frogs and toads, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday.Ī single misplaced hyphen and the reader expects destructive frogs instead of a deadly fungus. ZOOLOGISTS ID MYSTERIOUS FUNGUS-KILLING FROGS
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