[Helmut Weber]

Hi Submariner,

I think that you will agree that Supreme Court is not a word.
It is two words.

it isn't that far from Word programming to linguistics.

What I was taught is, that if no other word fits between
two words, who may be found on their own as well,
such as "killer whale", this is to be regarded as one word.

Same with "singer songwriter",
though there is "singer composer songwriter",
which is then regarded as consisting of
"singer composer" and "songwriter".

Or "killer hunter" and "killer whale hunter".

All in all, just another helpless attempt to
find rules for natural language,
which simply doesn't obey to rules.

As soon as there seems to be a rule,
someone breaks it in order to get more attention,
as long as there is sufficient redundancy for being understood.

Have a nice day.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"