Compound words: what real compound word is composed of most words?
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00:00 Compound Words: What Real Compound Word Is Composed Of Most Words?
00:37 Answer 1 Score 6
00:47 Accepted Answer Score 5
01:30 Answer 3 Score 1
02:01 Answer 4 Score 1
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ANSWER 1
Score 6
(if you're ok with suffixes like this)
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 5
From Which is correct: "So far as I know" or "As far as I know"?, I offer: Insofar.
Edit - This question has been puzzling me for a while. I feel like there should be an English word that is itself made up from two compound words, but I cannot think what it might be.
In the mean time, here are some more offerings of words that are made up of three or more sub-words that are considered standard English or have entered the common vernacular (all words pass the stackexchange spellchecker):
- Whatchamacallit (What-you-may-call-it)
- Thingamajig
- Thingamabob
- Plainclothesman
- Nevertheless
- Notwithstanding
- Theretofore
- Newspaperman
- Whatsoever, Whosoever, Wheresoever, Howsoever
- Insomuch (to go with 'insofar', mentioned above)
ANSWER 3
Score 1
Here's the list I have: albeit, heretofore, howsoever, inasmuch, insofar, insomuch, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, nowadays, whatsoever, wherewithal, whosoever. Some have suggested whensoever and wheresoever, but those are used (if ever) primarily in legal writing. I seem to remember a friend using a four-word closed/solid compound not too long ago, but can't recall what it was!
ANSWER 4
Score 1
Words are made up of morphemes, which are either free or bound morphemes. Some words comprise of a free morpheme only like the word establish which comprises of a single free morpheme. Disestablish, on the other hand is a word made up of two morphemes, of which dis is a bound morpheme and establish, as stated before, is a free morpheme. By the same token, we can analyse other bound morphemes like ar, ial, iz, im, and so on. As such, disestablishmentarialism, etc are wordssss.