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I've long been a minimal hyphenator. I still wince every time I type 'cooperate', but I just grit my teeth and get on with it. Anyway, noting in passing that the New York Times' comment pages are once more free (no more premium content), I noticed this today: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/opinion/23margolick.html?ref=opinion> The Day Louis Armstrong Made Noise Mr. Lubenow stuck initially to his editor's script, asking Mr. Armstrong to name his favorite musician. (Bing Crosby, it turned out.) But soon he brought up Little Rock, and he could not believe what he heard. "It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country," a furious Mr. Armstrong told him. President Eisenhower, he charged, was "two faced," and had "no guts." For Governor Faubus, he used a double-barreled hyphenated expletive, utterly unfit for print. I wondered, just for a moment whether it was the hyphen that made it unfit to print. P