Ice Cream, not ice-cream!
Tags:Linguistics punctuation
It’s official, at least in British English. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 6th Edition has removed over 16,000 hyphens from English words, and among them, the stick in ice-cream.
Kevin may not like it. He has data showing that, compared to Chinese speakers, American college students are very consistent when it comes to putting spaces between words, except for something like "ice-cream", when you see both "icecream" and "ice cream". Then, in his presentations, he will go on talking about how the word came from "iced cream" and is on the way to becoming a single word. Well, looks like not. They just took it apart again.