12th March 2004, 1:20 PM
Okay then. I'm not sure exactly how you say it that a hyphen would actually make it totally different. on-line and online to me look exactly the same in pronouncing...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)