Re: noun compounds

Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

>On 06/03/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
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>>As far as I am concerned, 'Apfel-Brombeer-Pastete' is a true compound.
>>It contrast with the English "apple and blackberry pie" where the
>>conjunction 'and' is need as it conjoining the epithet nouns 'apple' and
>>'blackberry', both being epithets of the head noun 'pie'.
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>How about "orange mango juice" or "apple pear juice" in English? Do
>they count as true compounds? (This sort of grammar seems most readily
>doable with juices, and not jams or pies. Even still, it seems a
>little odd in the generic case, but it's what juice companies often
>do.)
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That's not possible in my 'lect, at least.  And I suspect that applies
to the rest of the UK and Ireland

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