In the film A League of Their Own, actor Tom Hanks plays the coach of an American baseball team. He oversees an all-female team called the Rockford Peaches. In one famous scene at a game, Hanks gets ...

We can demonstrate the link between two nouns either by using possessive forms (the US bank's finance division / the finance division of the US bank) or compound nouns (the US bank finance division).

Housedog and doghouse; lighhouse and houselight. Neil Anderson, Hamilton, Bermuda Outlook and Lookout Evan McCaughey, Chesterfield Derbyshire Bookcase, housework. John, Wellington, NZ Overtake G ...

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their ...

Let's talk about the plurals of compound nouns. I submit to you: passers-by, hangers-on, attorneys general, brothers-in-law, and culs-de-sac. What about "month end" how would that be pluralized?

'False friends' are words in one language that look like words in another language, but which have very different meanings. There are a number of false friends in German, where the words look ...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'light' Homophones English in a Minute: Phrases with 'gold' Weather words Male and female job words Strong adjectives English in a Minute: Phrases with 'wind' ...