Re: Question about a grammatical term

Mau Rauszer wrote:
> > water cooler
> > basketball court
> > road rage
> > license plate
> > Coke machine
> > toilet humour
> > store hours
> >
> Isn't that simply a compound? English has the (for my taste) bad habit
> to juxtapose two words and not to form compound.
That's just an orthographic issue.  There's really no difference between
"road rage" and "earthworm".  Both have a single stress on the first
element.  Wáter cooler, not wáter cóoler.  Compare "Whíte House", the
place where the President lives, and "whíte hóuse", a house that happens
to be white.  One could just as easily write "watercooler" and "earth
worm" as "water cooler" and "earthworm".

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