BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Small object of grammatical desire: "It's small. It's flat. It's black. And according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, its numbers are shrinking. Welcome to the world of the hyphen."
BECOMING TWO WORDS
Fig leaf
Hobby horse
Ice cream
Pin money
Pot belly
Test tube
BECOMING ONE WORD
Bumblebee
Chickpea
Crybaby
Leapfrog
Logjam
Friday, September 21, 2007
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