Monthly Archives: October 2007

Another reason I like Radiohead

Just bought the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows. I always look forward to new albums by Radiohead as each album gets better. Nothing worse than band whose work regresses.
Radiohead let me pay what I liked for In Rainbows, so I dropped £10. If more artists did this, I might actually buy more music.

Less hyphens and less confusion

The precedent-following Oxford University Press has removed hyphens from about 16,000 words in their upcoming Shorter OED revision, according to Simon Rabinovitch of Reuters.
Over-hyphenation is a problem. As is under-hyphenation. While ice-cream easily becomes ice cream, compound adjectives should remain “precedent-following.”