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! G6 n! W# X7 s# ?6 a2 x这是一个有意思的问题,可以写篇(本)博士论文了。
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: ` T+ j+ f7 G) K7 Shttp://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/nouns-and-pronouns
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Nouns, the largest class of words in English (and in most languages), are the names of things, people, animals, places, qualities, actions, and ideas. A noun that refers to one of these is singular; while a noun that refers to more than one of these is plural. A noun is usually a single word, but not always: cake, shoes, school bus, and time and a half are all nouns. 4 y" o, S: k! k# p3 ]& W0 L& {$ M" w
8 l x- X, N8 b2 C& eOALD http://www.oxfordlearnersdiction ... /english/old-school
" z+ T0 b& t. c% M j, x" RODE https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/old_school
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) O8 l, I# M# E3 C0 Y( ihyphen - 这个东东也很烦人,old school , old-school + U, V8 V, j0 {+ n2 U0 a$ l$ v% D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorter_Oxford_English_Dictionary
2 X* j# J2 ]$ y6 sOn 21 September 2007, 16,000 words lost their hyphens in a Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, stated the reason: "People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for." Its researchers reviewed 2 billion words (in newspapers, books, web sites and blogs from 2000). Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly, etc.
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