Fun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
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MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
Eccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/…/compounds