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This is interesting because compounds are mostly written together in other languages. Never thought about it but file extension name really is a word. Someone
by pastage 5y ago
This is interesting because compounds are mostly written together in other languages.
Never thought about it but file extension name really is a word. Someone replied saying this is three words, but it is not is it? It's an open compound word or maybe a "set phrase", I wanted to call it an idiomatic expression but that was clearly wrong.
- hunter2_ 5y agoThe Wikipedia articles for "Set phrase" [0] and "Compound (linguistics)" [1] actually don't offer much of a distinction, so it's hard to say which of those is correct. Regardless, a compound with spaces ("open," as you said) is multiple words, not one word. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)