Headlines of the Day

World’s tallest man saves plastic eating dolphins

How anyone can save plastic by eating dolphins is beyond me, but sure. Someone hand CNN’s editorial staff a hyphen, please.

MIT Scientists Create One-Sided Mobius Pizza

That’s just awesome. It’s fake, of course, but it’s still awesome.

posted by Chris on 18 December 2006 at 1600 in language

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Comment by Lee Bennett

Looks like bbspot knows how to use hyphens, but forgot that successive words in a compound hyphenated word don’t get capitalized unless they’re proper nouns—this includes use in headlines such as this.

posted at 1600 on 18 December 2006

Comment by Chris Lawson

Good point, Lee.

posted at 1600 on 18 December 2006

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