Timeline for Are more than one "ground zero" multiple "ground zeros" or "grounds zero" or "grounds zeros"?
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 10:37 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's not long after a meal again, but that may not be the reason no postnominal attributive noun examples are springing to mind. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 21:26 | comment | added | puppetsock | Ground zero is the point on the surface closest to the event. So, arguably, the word "ground" is the modifier. It's the ground location of the zero, the zero being the vertical line through the event. It can also be called the surface zero. Though, as near as I have been able to tell, there is no specific word for the zero right at the event when it's above ground. Below ground it's the epicenter. For earthquakes ground zero is also the hypo-center. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 18:24 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Too soon after tea for a better example. 'Announced at SolidWorks World 2016 in the beginning of February, the first Mark Twos started shipping to customers before the end of ... ' [TheManufacturer.com]. Plus many other examples. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | "September Eleven" is English? | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Arguably, fixed phrases consisting of noun + numeral follow a different pattern. 'Lest We Forget the Other September Elevens'. But they're rare, and arguably compounds, as you suggest. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 17:28 | history | answered | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |