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The 50 most frequent words with hyphens in the British National Corpus | ||
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long-term video-taped co-operation no-one so-called full-time part-time post-war north-east well-known middle-class make-up old-fashioned two-thirds twenty-five large-scale south-east |
Hewlett-Packard north-west twenty-four vice-president co-operative south-west one-third would-be co-ordination middle-aged well-being first-class decision-making socio-economic ms-dos right-hand up-to-date |
x-ray right-wing co-operate long-standing five-year set-up twenty-one day-to-day secretary-general nineteenth-century pre-war half-time sub-committee one-off three-dimensional build-up |
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Longest hyphenated word in the BNC oral-aggressive-anal-retentive-come-and-see-me-five-times-a-week-for-years-at-vast-expense-or-how-do- | ||
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Changes over time Often the change is from two words tea bag to one word with a hyphen tea-bag to no hyphen teabag. Dates from OED. · tea bag 1898; tea-bag 1936 ; teabag 1977. · time-table 1820; time table 1838; timetable 1970 · cooperate 1616: co-operate 1762 · head maister 1576; head-master 1791; · screw driver 1779; screwdriver 1840; screw-driver 1842 · old fashioned 1653; old-fashion'd 1683; old-fashioned 1712 · weyle knawyne 1470; wel-knowene 1585; well-known 1780 · lamp shade 1850; lamp | ||