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Why would "numbnuts" need to be hyphenated? Compound nouns are losing the need for a hyphen anyway, if they ever needed one in the first place, I'm rusty on my diachronic English linguistics but I believe that's the whole point of the grammaticalisation process.Quote:
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Why would "numbnuts" need to be hyphenated? Compound nouns are losing the need for a hyphen anyway, if they ever needed one in the first place, I'm rusty on my diachronic English linguistics but I believe that's the whole point of the grammaticalisation process.
Please, enlighten me :)