About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.
Oxford English Dictionary have sought the public's help to find the roots of well-known words like ‘bonkers’ and ‘loo’.
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