Reposted by Jerica Taylor
How it feels to hyphenate an adjectival phrase but not hyphenate an identical noun phrase
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![Sacred Cod
Not to be confused with Sacred Cow.
The Sacred Cod is a four-foot-eleven-inch (150 cm) carved-wood effigy of an Atlantic codfish, painted to the life, hanging in the House of Representatives chamber of Boston's Massachusetts State House—"a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth" (i.e. Massachusetts, of which cod is officially the "historic and continuing symbol"). 2] The Sacred Cod has gone through as many as three incarnations over three centuries: the first if it really existed-the authoritative source calling it a
"prehistoric creature of tradition") was lost in a 1747 fire; the second disappeared during the American Revolution; and the third, installed in 1784, is the one seen in the House chamber today.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreihzsarl7ofwgefycyhcwoai3bnc4rp2qbim2ufmjlcd2yeuxuxyvu)
