Yet there will always be a problem about getting rid of the hyphen: if it's not extra-marital sex {with a hyphen}, it is perhaps extra marital sex, which is quite a different bunch of coconuts. Phrases abound that cry out for hyphens. Those much-invoked examples of the little used car, the superfluous hair remover, the pickled herring merchant, the slow moving traffic and the two hundred odd members of the Conservative Party would all be lost without it.
( Lynne Truss )
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