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?

Compound nouns 6 mins Learning English Vocabulary Homophones Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings. 6 mins Learning English Vocabulary Weather words Rainy ...

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 ...

The accentuation of compound nouns that are formed by combining two elements (first- and last-part) shows a certain patterns by the last-part element. The dictionary’s appendix at the end of the book ...

I and several readers were communicating recently about the practice of putting “I,” “me” or “my” first in a compound-noun phrase. In fact, two back-to-back emails posed the same question: Isn’t it ...