Here, have an interesting Twitter thread about the English Language:
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Here, have an interesting Twitter thread about the English Language:
So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun.
— David Thomas MOORGUE (@dtmooreeditor) September 12, 2022
It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period – not more than 150, 200 years – before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.
Well how cool is that!
The comments have more, including modern ones like scoff-law and kiss-ass.
They have yet to lose their hyphens.
The wind blew unceasingly from the South, as the rider made his final trip home for the winter. Maple leaves covered the shoulders and clattered on tarmac in the breeze. Even the beeches had yellowed and begun to brown. In the relentless blow, the flats felt like ups, and the ups felt like murder. Shifting out of the bottom gears felt like luxury, and where previously he used low, he was now forced to the granny…
In short: I’ve never been so tired and sore in my life.