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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by talideon on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:51AM (#8752553)
'red-head scarf' certainly isn't an acceptable use of a hyphen, unless the scarf is woven from the hair of a red-haired person.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by scarygliders on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:12AM (#8752664)
I read that as "A scarf that red haired people wear"
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:27PM (#8753099)
That would be a legitimate way to parse that phrase, but it's far more likely that this is a typo for "red head-scarf". There isn't a particular kind of scarf worn by red-heads, AFIAK.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by kefka on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:33PM (#8753129)
Admittedly, I thought of the sexual double-entendre. Muff can make a nice scarf...

But I digress.

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