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karim_ouz
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Hi everybody,
which one is correct: ice cream or ice-cream??
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26 Mar 2011
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Tere-arg
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ice cream = noun
ice-cream = adjective
Info: HERE
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27 Mar 2011
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Jayho
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The hyphen is gradually being dropped from compound words. You will see both forms used but imho ice cream without a hyphen and used as a noun is far more common these days.
As Tere-arg wrote, it is still necessary to use it in adjectival forms.
There �s an interesting article on it here |
27 Mar 2011
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yanogator
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Here in the US, we write "ice cream cone" without the hyphen, although we still usually use a hyphen for multiple-word adjectival forms (but people are drifting away from that, too). Bruce
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27 Mar 2011
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