Is there a grammatical rule to compound a set of words such as a single one? e.g. word1 word2 --> word1word2 or word1-word2? Bye.
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Here is a rule I read related to evolution of compound words.
Most compound words start out as two words :
Air plane, Space ship
Stage two, they are hyphenated :
Air-plane, Space-ship
Stage three, over time they start become accepted as a single word:
Airplane,Spaceship
I am not whether this answers your question, but hope it helps.
answered Nov 15, 2013 at 4:08
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It's OK, but I was wondering too, if it is possible to know numeric details about those stages of compounding such as the specific time of acceptance; additionaly, what/who lets that new way of writing? At the end of the day, what does it determine which one of that triad of "words" is the correct in a specific sentence?– user25607Commented Nov 15, 2013 at 4:47