New Words

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:10 pm

Bumblebee
Chickpea
Crybaby
Leapfrog
Logjam

The sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has knocked the hyphens out of 16,000 words, many of them two-word compound nouns. Fig-leaf is now fig leaf, pot-belly is now pot belly, pigeon-hole has finally achieved one word status as pigeonhole and leap-frog is feeling whole again as leapfrog.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7004661.stm

yoyo123 · Post by **yoyo123** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:45 pm

aarrggghhh, just as you thought you were in site of teh goalposts....