Churchill: the Something, up with which I will not put.
A quote from a cable Churchill sent to his publisher when the publisher admonished the Great Man about his ending sentences with prepositions. The Churchill answer was "That is a pedantry up with which I will not put." The cable, I was told, was framed and hung in the publisher's office.
Hyphens : The A.P. Stylebook, which aims at making English clear and precise, says: "Hyphens are joiners. Use them to avoid ambiguity or to form a single idea from two or more words. Use a hyphen whenever ambiguity would result if it were omitted. The president will speak to small-businessmen. (Businessmen is normally one word But the president will speak to small businessmen) is unclear."
The A.P. goes on for 8 1/2, single-spaced inches regarding the use of hyphens in : compound modifiers, two-thought compounds, compound proper names and adjectives, prefixes and suffixes, avoid duplicated vowels and triple consonants, with numerals and (finally) suspensive hyphenation, which I shall spare you.
