Re: Question about a grammatical term

Roger Mills scripsit:

> Some are written together, probably from tradition:
> blackberry (the specific fruit) main stress on black
> black berry (any black berry) main stress on berry
Say rather as a result of a Hartree-Fock process, by which lexicographers
create dictionaries based on works published by publishers, who set their
orthographical rules based on those same dictionaries.  In the 19th
century "baseball" was "base ball" and then "base-ball".  This is the
normal process, AFAIK no compound goes against the tide, but many never
reach the end:  from "X ray" to "X-ray" was easy, but "Xray" is unheard-of
in ordinary prose.

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