A spelling mnemonic from childhood:
You connect, I cut -> Connecticut
Not that I ever check my Twitter feed, but I do follow Hawaii News Now. When the words are squished together, I always read it as Hawaii Snow Now, which kind of makes sense because it does snow on Mauna Kea and it’s news if the blizzard-like conditions close down the road to the summit.
BTW, one of the puzzles in the Times today consisted of sentences where you had to fill in three blanks - one for the full word, and one for each of the two words making it. It wasn’t quite like the case in the OP since one of the letters overlapped. I assume someone mentioned that British cryptics use this kind of clue all the time.
The IRS
Theirs
.
The decision was made by six tit-
led men.
Please note that this is a 2011 thread.
An apt button: http://i3.cpcache.com/product/622248951/earth_without_art_ornament_round.jpg?height=460&width=460&qv=90
Resent has taken on a funny double meaning in the era of e-mail. Every few months I see someone who has made an error send out a follow-up correction with this cryptic explanation:
“I resent this correction.”
Hyphens, people, hyphens!
A fitting one for a search engine used to find porn:
Google = go ogle
I definitely hyphen both re-sent and re-sign in emails at work.
And Petcetera reminded people of Pete Cetera.
A week ago, John Oliver did a joke hash tag #notallfoxes. Supposed to read “Not all foxes” (not all foxes a terrible) and he noticed it could also be read “No tall foxes” and then did a joke about nasty tall foxes.
Hash tags are basically a fount of such things.