The Design District
Bike Box: Why the Hyphen?
Ok, just warning you: This has nothing to do with design. Or maybe it does? Regardless, does anyone have any idea why there’s a hyphen between “Wait Here” in Portland’s new bike box on SE Hawthorne and 7th?
Courtesy of BikePortland.org
I mean, really. I just want to go over to it and edit it out, but that’s the grammar nerd in me. My coworker thinks it’s to prevent people from thinking it says “Waithere” but I’d like to think we’re smarter than that ….
By kristin on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 02:52PM PDT
maybe they’re trying to create a new noun. it’s not a command, but that area is now called the wait-here. “So I pulled up into the wait-here just behind the bike.”
By Rachel DeSchepper on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 04:48PM PDT
Ha! That’s the only way it’d make sense grammatically.