Box-Ford travelling steady

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by not done it yet on 31/03/2020 18:24:50:

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But a search for ‘Boxford’ brings up ten pages. A search for Box-Ford brings up one thread.

KISS

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… Says the man who gratuitously mis-spells so many words

MichaelG.

[Joe McKeanParticipant @joemckean81940]

Thanks Clive, appreciate the info.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Roderick Jenkins on 31/03/2020 13:10:00:

The lathes database **LINK** Shows that the hyphen disappeared sometime around 1960

Rod

Edit: Too slow yet again!

Edited By Roderick Jenkins on 31/03/2020 13:11:27

I think that was the time of the great international hyphen shortage caused when they were all bought up and reforged into the ubiquitous grocer's apostrophes. (Or should that be apostrophe's?) Rarer than loo paper in a plague they were.

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