For The Residents & Friends of "Bitty Central"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bitties

Let me make an amendment to this. The etymology of "bitty" is actually as follows:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biddy

And from this we choose to reclaim the word as an empowering description of HOT females!

But let's not forget:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bitty

Hyphen Usage: A Compounded Problem

When is it appropriate to use the hyphen?

The places where it does matter are summarized in the Oxford Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (2004), the most important being

1. to make clear the unifying of the sense in compound expressions such as punch-drunk, cost-benefit analysis, or weight-carrying, or compounds in attributive use (that is, in front of the noun), as in an up-to-date list or the well-known performer;
2. to join a prefix to a proper name (e.g. anti-Darwinian);
3. to avoid misunderstanding by distinguishing phrases such as twenty-odd people and twenty odd people, or a third-world conflict and a third world conflict;
4. to clarify the use of a prefix, as in recovering from an illness and re-covering an umbrella;
5. to clarify compounds with similar adjacent sounds, such as sword-dance, co-opt, tool-like.
6. to represent the use of a common element in a list of compounds, such as four-, six-, and eight-legged animals.
7. in dividing a word across a line-break. Guidance on word division is given in reference books such as the Oxford Colour Spelling Dictionary (1996).

For the sake of brevity, I will temporarily defer this contention to one of my heroes (William Safire):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10wwln-safire-t.html