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Subject:Does "Anal Retentive" have a hyphen? From:Mark I Halpern <Mark_Halpern -at- SMTPGATE -dot- TESSERACT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 7 Feb 1996 14:14:57 PST
Colleagues,
Bill Sullivan, in a recent message, misquoted the T-shirt
legend as "Does Anal Retentive Need a Hyphen?"; it's not quite
that -- see the subject line of this message for the correct
text.
And the answer to the question is, No, it has a colon.
