A reader asked me recently how to write the word “warmonger.” “I was going to Google it, but it seemed better to ask an expert instead,” she noted. Web searches can be an invaluable tool when you want ...

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their ...