Re: †††LC-01 genitive noun  phrases

"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> > Does the form "up-picker" occur? It seems the second most natural alternative
> > to me ...
>
> Yup.  That is exactly the form I would use normally.  I say "picker-upper"
> to be whimsical or sound "folksy", but the natural agentive of "to pick up"
> is "up-picker".
Really?  I don't think I've ever heard "up-picker" or any similar form,
and it sounds exceedingly bizarre to me.  I'd use "picker upper" because
it sounds the least strange.  "Picker up" sounds a bit funny (and not
just because of the Bounty commercial, either "putter up" sounds funny
too, I'd probably say "putter upper"), while "pick upper" is completely
wrong.  It would never occur to me to move the particle "up" to the
front of the verb.

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