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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