Today's Globe and Mail ran a story about how the sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has removed some 16,000 hyphens from words such as ice cream (formerly ice-cream), water bed (water-bed), leapfrog (leap-frog), and lowlife (low-life). Hilariously, the Globe's automatic hyphenation engine restored some of those hyphens, thus neatly wrecking the whole point of the story. See the highlights in the image below:
