Words with Spaces(linguabase.org)
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Words with Spaces
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There are nearly half a million compound phrases that aren’t in any dictionary—simply because they contain spaces. “Boiling water.” “Saturday night.” “Help me.” I got interested in this because I make word games. I wanted to understand when to include words with spaces—and the legacy effects of traditional dictionaries on our sense of “what is a word.”
This is a follow-on piece to “The Small World of English” (at inotherwords.app)