The addition of a hyphen to her surname for the purposes of her title was required under peerage rules, she confirmed.

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Is that the reason they took the hyphen out of Wal-Mart and replaced it with a big single star years after Sam died.

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The hyphen maintains separate identities while symbolising co-operation across the Rhine.

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The label in question was one he disliked so much that he preferred to put it between quotation marks (as if handling it with a pair of tweezers) and to insert a hyphen (as if to deny it the dignity of being a real word).

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For those of us who are lavishly cobwebbed with time, however, the notion of yet another Spider-Man saga, this soon, does seem hasty, and I wish that the good people or, at any rate, the patent lawyers at Marvel Comics could at least have taken the opportunity to elide the intensely annoying hyphen in the title.

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