Re: Question about a grammatical term

=?iso-8859-1?q?bnathyuw?= scripsit:

> one comment i'ld make about the english is on phrases
> like 'toilet humour' where the relationship is quite
> complex, meaning something like 'humour inspired by
> the toilet' or some such
My favorite is "milk tooth", namely "a tooth that appears when one is
in the predominantly milk-drinking stage of life."  There certainly is
no other compound with this particular relation between the components.

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