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这是一个有意思的问题,可以写篇(本)博士论文了。
提供些参考:
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/nouns-and-pronouns
下面引语来自 MWALD 附录。
Nouns, the largest class of words in English (and in most languages), are the names of things, people, animals, places, qualities, actions, and ideas. A noun that refers to one of these is singular; while a noun that refers to more than one of these is plural. A noun is usually a single word, but not always: cake, shoes, school bus, and time and a half are all nouns.
OALD http://www.oxfordlearnersdiction ... /english/old-school
ODE https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/old_school
hyphen - 这个东东也很烦人,old school , old-school
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorter_Oxford_English_Dictionary
On 21 September 2007, 16,000 words lost their hyphens in a Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, stated the reason: "People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for." Its researchers reviewed 2 billion words (in newspapers, books, web sites and blogs from 2000). Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly, etc.
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