A candidate for the most misplaced hyphen of the year?

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Topic # 239627 27-Jul-2018 07:17

In the Herald:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12095896

I find:

"This pain-staking work eventually turned out several surprising discoveries."

You wonder what caused that.

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Reply # 2063286 27-Jul-2018 08:08

Rogue software.

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Reply # 2063315 27-Jul-2018 08:57

I'll be planting two more fruit trees soon, I will also be doing pain-staking work

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Reply # 2063321 27-Jul-2018 09:15

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Lack of proof reading.

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Reply # 2063332 27-Jul-2018 09:30

It's the Herald. Is anyone really surprised?

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Reply # 2063336 27-Jul-2018 09:35

While on subject of Herald... WTF is with the "eruption in Auckland" articles every 3 months ?

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Reply # 2063354 27-Jul-2018 09:57

xpd:

While on subject of Herald... WTF is with the "eruption in Auckland" articles every 3 months ?

Trying to drive down house prices by making Auckland a less attractive place to live perhaps?

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Reply # 2063359 27-Jul-2018 10:08

xpd:

While on subject of Herald... WTF is with the "eruption in Auckland" articles every 3 months ?

It's real, see halfway through https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=236234

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Reply # 2063361 27-Jul-2018 10:12

Geektastic: Lack of proof reading.

Correct, Herald and Stuff perform no proof reading nor spell checking.

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Reply # 2063457 27-Jul-2018 11:16

On the matter of the OP: I did wonder if this originated from poor subediting or software in relation to splitting (and hyphenating) words at the end of a newspaper line - of course, if this was the case, it should have been split as "pains-taking", as discussed in this blog post: https://howcanisaythat.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/painstaking-pain-staking/

But that's not a legit excuse because, looking at the electronic 'print' copy of today's Herald in PressReader, it's not split across two lines...

My favourite hyphenation issue I've spotted here on GZ a few times is the lack of one in 're-sign': re-signing and resigning have slightly different meanings!