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RE: Mousepad or mouse pad? The winner is: mouse-pad
Subject:RE: Mousepad or mouse pad? The winner is: mouse-pad From:"Mike Bradley" <mbradley -at- techpubs -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:21:02 -0800
> The correct noun form is "mouse pad."
In the US, at least, rather than "correct," one should say "current"
or "accepted." In this sort of term, hyphenation is generally a
temporary form of combining words in a new way. Eventually, if the
combination becomes accepted conceptually, the hyphen disappears.
> The point of hyphenating two words like this is to
> eliminate ambiguity.
