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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Slip On Deck Shoes
From today's World Wide Words, ed. M. Quinion:
What power a hyphen has. Roger Beale wrote, "A friend of mine has just bought a pair of summer shoes from Marks and Spencer that carry a label reading 'Slip On Deck Shoes'."
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