Haha, I do that too sometimes.

It's a thing in some Germanic languages. Instinct is to merge nouns into word, e.g. 'lawnchair', but that gives you a red squiggly line, but 'lawn chair' also looks wrong, so 'lawn-chair' is the middle ground.

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ben_w 5 hours ago | parent [-]

First time I realised this was GCSE History lessons, looking at first world war posters like this one and going "huh, to-day with a hyphen…"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/27774

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brador 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Badnami is Persian and literally means bad-name (like defamation of character).

English word origins are a fascinating rabbit hole.

	▲	ben_w 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> English word origins are a fascinating rabbit hole. My favourite example of which is Northern Ireland's Orange Order. The colour is orange, because that was the Royal colour of the family of the monarch it was named after, William of Orange, who was Dutch, titled after the principality of Orange which is named after the city of Orange which is French which got its name from the Celtic word for forehead or temple. The colour is named after the fruit, the fruit's name is a corruption "a norange" -> "an orange", which goes back to naranja which goes to Arabic which goes to Classical Persian which goes to Sanskrit. Meanwhile, the dutch word for the fruit is sinaasappel, Chinese apple, compare with the English word "mandarin" used for many different Chinese things.