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I always thought it had a hyphen, though, as in "three-dog night". The band can be forgiven for leaving it out... :0)
Funny. I never hear the hyphen when folks say it.
I suppose that someone would almost run the words together - circa "threedog night" - if they were actually using the term rather than the band name, but I've never heard anyone actually say it.
Where ... at? only bothers me in only in online circumstances where people are being as brief as possible and then add that extra in, e.g. "where r u at" or even worse "wr u at". ;-)
Of course I can imagine grammar without punctuation, but we have become hooked on writing and it has come to affect our speech. Just as any Western melody from Bach to pop 'implies' a sequence of chords, anything we say implies its written appearance.
Just because the punctuation only adds convenience, I don't find that it follows that it is not an integral part of our grammatical constructions. This sentence implies a semicolon after its ninth word it looks odd without it. It would be worse if we did away with full stops and capitals; the grammar could be otherwise perfect but confusion would surely set in.
I've heard/read that whistles are/were used in the Canary Islands because it carries better than voice because of the volcanic rock(?). Haven't verified it (I read it back in the days when you could trust what you read, at least in the Weekly Reader :-E)
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