"Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would have expected it to be a compound word, Pipestem, instead of
>separate words.
Well, since we're way OT already, I must note: "pipe stem" *is* a compound
word. It's an "open" compound, as opposed to hyphenated ("pipe-stem") or closed
("pipestem"). That's how compounds evolve in English, occasionally getting
"stuck" as hyphenated. And now we have a new class, what I call the "infix"
class: HiperSockets, JavaScript, GoogleWhack, et al. -- closed but delineated
by inner caps.
...phsiii (who included "HiperSockets" just so's he'd be able to pretend this
wasn't OT!)
