What's the proper way of writing swearword?

pdrhlik / sweary

R package that collects swear words from different languages.

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What's the proper way of writing swearword? #32

Closed pdrhlik closed 5 years ago

pdrhlik commented 6 years ago

Is it swearword, swear-word, swear word or something else? I would like to decide which form to use so we can all stick to it. I can see that each of us uses something different.

mczyzj commented 6 years ago

I asked my friend who is an English language guru (PhD on xii century English...) And he said that it is compound noun and usually it is written separately however some people (mostly Americans) use swearword form. If it is used as adjective it can be written with hyphen e.g. swear-word expression...

pdrhlik commented 6 years ago

That sounds great. Do you agree to start using swear word as a noun and swear-word as an adjective? I would get on editing the README, function comments etc. to get this right.

mczyzj commented 6 years ago

OK with me