Posted by aurays · May 28, 2014 · 2 replies
Hi everyone,
I can't seem to figure out the correct form: cakecrumbs, cake-crumbs or cake crumbs? 😕
I think cakecrumbs and cake crumbs are both interchangeable - is this correct? Is it only a matter of style or a geographical variation?
Would cake-crumbs be correct too or not at all?
All fine - though I think in this case the hyphen might be less likely. But with compounds like this there are no hard and fast rules except where there's a clear difference in meaning - eg between a blackbird and a black bird. The second is not a compound but an ordinary description and to avoid confusion, "blackbird" is always written as one word.
Many thanks Susan!
I was very confused as they all sounded good, but now it makes more sense 😉
