Well, you can have a back yard and a backyard grill or backyard patio, but not a backyard... Backyard is an adjective, not a noun.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Anestis Kozakis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 December 2011 03:30, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is another disturbing trend for people, even in professional >> circles, to smash two words together into one. A few examples: > > [snip] > >> In Fine Homebuilding, a magazine showing the very best in >> craftsmanship in residential construction and remodeling, they have >> allowed the use of 'backyard' as a noun instead of the correct 'back >> yard.' It has the be a bad editorial slip, because I have seen it on >> numerous occasions in articles written by different people over the >> last two years or so. > > I found a reference to the word "backyard" as far back as 1920, it > being the Oliver Hardy silent film "The backyard", Looks like it's > been in use for longer than recently. > > In Australia, it's been one word for as long as I can remember. > > [snip] > >> Nick A > > Anestis. > -- > Anestis Kozakis | [email protected] | http://www.akozakis.id.au/ > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
