Another Example of Linguistic Change
rogersgeorge on November 8th, 2024
The tendency in English is for words often spoken together to become hyphenated, then become a compound word. For example, “today” used to be “to-day.” And “pick-up” truck has become “a “pickup truck.”
Here’s another example, from July of 1941. First and last panel:
Do you ever see the word hyphenated any more?
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