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The man with the biggest set of hyphens is Russ Meyer, whose 1979 Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens has him credited as actor-writer-editor-cinematographer-producer-and-director.
"The chaos prevailing among writers or printers or both regarding the use of hyphens is discreditable to English education," he began, and about halfway through he threw up his hands and said of the examples he had been citing, "the evidence they afford" is "that common sense is in fact far from common".
One recommendation (as someone who invests in domain names for a living) is that you upgrade to CustomConferenceTables.com instead of using the domain name with hyphens … The company that owns the name w/o hyphens is a very large company and the price is affordable, especially considering the products you're selling and your current advertising outlay.
It just ponders the glories of culinary cross-pollination, making a promise of "British-Indio-Asian" fusion that sounds more like a threat, given that it's a two-hyphen fusion and that one of the words bumping up against one of the hyphens is "British".
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One of the most common, important uses of hyphens is to string together related words and concepts to form single words and unified phrases.
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