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One Lump or Two?
A discussion of solid, hyphenated and open compounds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2019
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In a well-known and much discussed article, the philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote as follows (Russell, 1952):
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.
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