Their First Handjobs
Sex education isn’t what it used to be. And neither, it seems, is a journalism degree:
I believe “first-hand job experience” would have delivered the desired visual impact here, but the headline as printed does raise an interesting question: when writing about a handsie, is the preferred orthography “hand job”, “handjob”, or “hand-job”?
My own preference is for the portmanteau word “handjob” but in all such matters, I like to go to Google, enclose the various candidates in quotation marks, and count how many returns Google says it has in its database. Here, the results in ascending order are:
Hand job: 33.9 million
Hand-job: 34.1 million
Handjob: 359 million (!!!)
So, by that measure, my preference is the winner ten times over. But, interestingly, Google’s on-page supplemental information varies across the three spellings. “Handjob” has a clinical Wikipedia entry with an on-page summary, but “hand job” gets an on-page dictionary definition, a cross-link to the search results for “handjob”, and a completely spurious book review box to a Google Books entry about hand-made typography. “Hand-job” gets the wikipedia link and the typography book, but not the cross-link or the definition.
Is my geek showing? Maybe, yeah.
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I recall (from my admittedly imperfect memory) that in her 1981 memoir Blooming: A small town girlhood, Susan Alan Toth recounts getting a part-time job on her local newspaper as a teenager and being assigned to write a short human interest feature on a local organist. She generated copy something like “Mr. X works for the town during the week and during most weekends stays home and plays with his organ.” The newsroom laughed at her, poor girl!
Yes. I can see your geek
Years ago the student paper at Loyola University, a Jesuit institution in Chicago, ran a headline about the spouses of the non-priestly professors attending an innocuous event. Shortly after the issues were dropped off the paper staff fanned out over the campus to grab any papers they could. Apparently the headline was “Lay Faculty Wives at Communion Breakfast.”
re:
One word, two words, or hyphenated?
Now see…
THIS is precisely why you should always hire a service to write your resume’…
;^p