Could this be the end of the line for hyphens?
A shock report in The Times warns that hyphens have become the most overused form of punctuation. English language researchers at English Today, a quarterly journal from Cambridge University Press, are causing quite a stir in the normally staid world of academia by naming and shaming the worst hyphen offenders.
And we’re not talking amateurs here but professional writers including Professor Richard Dawkins, Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye,
