Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: National Wordsmith Day (3 May) Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 22:18:36 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 7 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 12:18:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c8cd465ee357efee0effcecdc086e5ee"; logging-data="1229761"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18L3GNthQq/YzbFE2bUi2Yup7sTGjkQ1JA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zkIQ/8n3z575xUbGaP/+AKt/1x8= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1406 "After a lengthy search of online sources, I could find no information about who began the day, or when or where." (Crystal) Oh dear. Well, Crystal, like a good wordsmith, fills up the page with examples of English nominal compounds, first those ending in -smith, and then those beginning with word-. Next!