Prefixes frequently consolidated
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PREFIXES AND TERMINALS
Compounds that end with boat, house, book, room, side, yard, shop, mill, work, maker, holder, keeper, etc., are frequently printed with a hyphen, but when the words that so end are in common use they should be consolidated, as in
- anteroom
- bedroom
- bedside
- bookbinder
- bookseller
- breastworks
- commonplace
- daybreak
- daylight
- daytime
- downstairs
- drawbridge
- earthworks
- fireside
- firewarden
- foothills
- framework
- gamekeeper
- groundwork
- handbill
- handbook
- headwaters
- hillside
- hilltop
- hotchpot
- lawsuit
- lifetime
- network
- outhouse
- quitclaim
- rainfall
- roadside
- sawmill
- seaside
- shoemaker
- steamboat
- stockholder
- storehouse
- storeroom
- upstairs
- warehouse
- watercourse
- wayfarer
- wayside
- workshop
It should be noted that most of the prefixes in these examples are words of one syllable. When the prefix consists of two syllables, as in canal-boat, ferry-house, dwelling-house, water-drop, etc., the words are more acceptable when connected with the hyphen.
