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Hyphen-Nation?

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A BBC article today said “Places that were once teeming with the hustle and bustle of daily life have become ghost-towns.”

That hyphen feels wrong. It reminded me of the cartoon below, which I found in David Crystal's book MAKING A POINT, which I highly commend to language-lovers.


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