Re: noun compounds
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 6, 2006, 21:29 |
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On 06/03/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> I rather fancy there simply is difference of usage in the anglophone
> world over these matters. Tristan has recently gives us "apple pear
> juice" which may be OK in Oz, but sounds ungrammatical here.
I don't wish to miscommunicate here: Okay in Oz if you're a designer
of juice bottles. And even then I think it's actually that the bottles
say "Orange Mango" or "Apple Pear" and I'm independently adding
"Juice" to make a bit of sense of it. I don't want to give the
impression that it *is* grammatical in Australia. Grammatically I
doubt our dialects really are that different :)
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Tristan