Thread: The end of "THE END"?
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Old 12-18-2022, 04:28 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
The progression of two words, hyphen and then compound words in English is documented well in The English Language (1985) Burchfield and other books.
And that's possibly an upcoming question, LOL! I do have a title that is NOT YET eligible for MobileRead, but the author died in 1955, so if I stay this side of the dirt, as Hitch says, maybe.

Another children's title, but one absolutely riddled with two word combos that today would be compound words. It's positively annoying to read after a while.

Black birds, camp fire, thunder storm, sage brush and the like. But a black bird is not necessarily the same thing as a blackbird! But y'all got a few years before I need to know whether to modernize or not!
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