Re: noun compounds
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 6, 2006, 14:37 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>As for "apple pear juice", that is simply ungrammatical in the
>English I have used and spoken these past 60+ years. Heaven >preserve
us from such juice companies.
It is sad to say, but heaven is not able to preserve us in this
instance. Heaven is not so powerful as the almighty dollar/euro
and/or the lack of education among those in the advertising business.
Who needs an ampersand when one can write "clamato" or "cranapple"?
But perhaps these are no worse than "cheeseburger."
Charlie
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