There must be something about the hyphen that is so alluring that writers want to insert it where it doesn’t belong, like this example from Yahoo! Shine:
Inserting a hyphen in an already oversized word all the while ignoring the conventions of English, this article continues with this absolute nonsensical sentence:
I’m guessing here, but I think the writer meant: Like all good things of television old, the Banana Splits are being brought back to the tube.
Finally, there’s that hyphen again creating another split:
Corniness is a perfectly fine word, which (when spelled correctly) is hyphenless. And the repeated the is obviously a typo that writers who reread their work would spot and correct.
