Show THE nE III RIGHT WORD lift I By Dy W. W Curtis Nicholson I o 0 T The j i.-j N Newspaper COMPOUNDING WORDS MANY M ANY people have or should I have dictionaries but not every ev ery cry one has an unabridged diction ary In the Introductory part o of Funk and New Standard Dictionary of the English Language Language Language Lan guage is a section that begins with the title Method of Compounding Words This is in the unabridged edition Those who have this edl edi lion tion may have overlooked reading this section those who do not have havethe havethe havethe the edition probably have not seen it Therefore The Right Word has decided to place before its lis readers read ers era some of the suggestions relative to the compounding of words First let us consider one pie laid down by the dictionary This Is to the effect that abnormal association of words generally cates cater unification In sense and hence compounding In form We are told that when two words are used together together to to- together gether as one name they become one word if the first is not functionIng function Ing mg as an adjective Thus In brick brickhouse brickhouse brickhouse house brick is an adjective so 0 soto soto to speak and tells us of what the house Is made But in trick yard of a yard where we are speaking bricks brick are made Here we e do not have a yard made of or bricks but we do have an entirely new name Compounding is necessary when two adjectives a noun and an ad or any two or more parts part 01 oj speech are abnormally associated to function as one adjective Thi ThE dictionary gives these examples stairs down room dark dark brown brown hair well known man knee-deep knee snow free trade free trade doctrines Service |