{"id":52666,"date":"2026-06-26T21:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52666"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:31:18","slug":"english-compound-words-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-compound-words-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"English: compound words, continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions a peculiarity among compound words.<\/h2>\n<p>\nBack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-compound-words\/\">August 31, 2014<\/a>, I mention a case of a compound word. A compound word is one that is made of two standalone words brought together. <em>Something<\/em> is an example.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne peculiarity among compound words is that ones ending with &#8220;in&#8221; tend to be hyphenated, while ones ending with &#8220;out&#8221; do not. One case is break-in, but breakout; another is check-in, but checkout.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>Sabin, W.A. (1986). <em>The Gregg Reference Manual,<\/em> third Canadian edition. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions a peculiarity among compound words. Back on August 31, 2014, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-compound-words-continued\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: compound words, continued<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-52666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-compound-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52671,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666\/revisions\/52671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}