Hyphen
A hyphen ("-") was a punctuation mark used for joining words.  

In 3189, as Paul Stamets attempted to spell out "my partner brought me out of a coma and all I got was this lousy t-shirt", he failed to mention the hyphen in "t-shirt". Stamet's partner, Hugh Culber, pointed out that the hyphen was missing. ()

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Linguistics