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From: gary
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:00

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smatsuda@med.keio.ac.jp wrote:
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>    2. How do you, English-speaking peoples, treat newly created
>    words of English? 

The evolution of new words usually follows a set course.  First, a
common word is linked with a novel descriptor in an adjective-noun
pairing, like "germ head".  Then, as the new coinage becomes more
accepted, the linkage grows stronger through a joining of the component
words with a hyphen: "germ-head".  Finally, when the term is completely
integrated into the language, the hyphen is discarded like useless
scaffolding, and the word-pair combines in beautiful
singularity..."germhead".  The miracle of word birth.

I hope this answers your question, shuji.  English is truly a marvelous
language, don't you think?

--gary

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