David Thomas Moore
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Editorial Director @solarisbooks. He/him. This account now largely retired, find me at @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
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http://www.rebellionpublishing.com/ 15-10-2009 08:37:23
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So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun. It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.