Housedog and doghouse; lighhouse and houselight. Neil Anderson, Hamilton, Bermuda Outlook and Lookout Evan McCaughey, Chesterfield Derbyshire Bookcase, housework. John, Wellington, NZ Overtake G ...

Let's talk about the plurals of compound nouns. I submit to you: passers-by, hangers-on, attorneys general, brothers-in-law, and culs-de-sac. What about "month end" how would that be pluralized?

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Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their ...

There are three ways that compound nouns can be written: with the two nouns making up the compound noun placed together without a space between them, with the two nouns separated by a space, and with ...

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