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

'False friends' are words in one language that look like words in another language, but which have very different meanings. There are a number of false friends in German, where the words look ...

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?

The accentuation of compound nouns that are formed by combining two elements (first- and last-part) shows a certain patterns by the last-part element. The dictionary’s appendix at the end of the book ...

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