Compounding Rules
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6.10.
Compounds beginning with the following nouns are usually printed solid.
- book
- eye
- horse
- house
- mill
- play
- school
- shop
- way
- wood
- work
6.11.
Compounds ending in the following are usually printed solid, especially when the prefixed word consists of one syllable.
- berry
- bird
- blossom
- board
- boat
- book
- borne
- bound
- box
- boy
- brained
- bug
- bush
- cam
- craft
- field
- fish
- flower
- fly
- girl
- grower
- headed
- hearted
- holder
- hopper
- house
- keeper
- keeping
- land
- light
- like
- line
- load
- maid
- maker
- making
- man
- master
- mate
- mill
- mistress
- monger
- over
- owner
- but #ownership
- person
- picker
- picking
- piece
- plane
- power
- proof
- roach
- room
- shop
- site
- skin
- smith
- stone
- store
- tail
- tight
- time (not clock)
- ward
- ware
- water
- way
- wear
- weed
- wide
- wise
- woman
- wood
- work
- worker
- working
- worm
- worthy
- writer
