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Re: Question about a grammatical term

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Thursday, October 3, 2002, 2:31
--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> Actually, I'm wondering whether this is any > different from compounding. True, > the two words are written separately. But that's a > graphical issue only.
Indeed. It's a vagary of English spelling; and we have similar compounds that are in fact written together (housekey, password, newsgroup, etc.)
> Christophe.
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