Tag: MobyDick

Overlooked punctuation in ‘Moby-Dick’ augurs ill for hyphens

It’s a proven fact that as you get older you worry more about punctuation. Fussing about apostrophes and semicolons just comes with the territory. Thus, it’s no surprise that the other day our coffee group started discussing the hyphen, in particular the hyphen in the title of Herman Melville’s masterpiece, “Moby-Dick.” My wife, Cindy, a […]