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According to my 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary, “good-bye” and “co-operate” are hyphenated, neither “leg room” nor “birth rate” can be run together into single word, and “teenager” doesn’t exist.

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Some words are said together so often that many people think they're a single word—but they're not. Or at least not all of the time. The confusing business of compound words, explained. If you spend a ...