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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's actually another stage:
1. Have two separate words.
2. Join them together with a hyphen.
3. Drop the hyphen.
If you read novels from the early 19th century onwards, you'll see "to day" becoming "to-day", and then "today". Same with lots of other words.
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Which is the most typical/traditional movement of words from what I've seen. And I been keepin' a close eye on them for the last 6 decades or so....they're sneaky, ya gotta watch 'em all the time.