Compound words are when you have two words, they're words all on their own, and then they come together to make a new word, like in a word "rainbow". And we have this really angry Bossy R here.

In contractions, some words that would ideally follow or appear next to each other are shortened (especially the last word). Examples include ‘could not’ (couldn’t), ‘It is’ (it’s).

Compound words are particularly powerful because they are (much) more than the sum of their parts. Torschlusspanik, for instance, is literally made of “gate”-“closing”-“panic”.

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In contractions, some words that would ideally follow or appear next to each other are shortened (especially the last word). Examples include ‘could not’ (couldn’t), ‘It is’ (it’s).