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Re:Hapax legomenon by RyanMcGreal on Thursday March 06, 2014 @10:35AM (#7354268)
Word pairings that take off in usage gradually migrate from separated by spaces to separated by hyphens to compounded. E.g.

    data base
    data-base
    database
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