Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing   /     'Addictive' or 'addicting'? Types of nouns. Folley

Summary

970. We answer a listener question about the difference between "addictive" and "addicting," and then we look at how to write compound nouns: did you visit a coffeehouse or a coffee house?

Subtitle
970. We answer a listener question about the difference between "addictive" and "addicting," and then we look at how to write compound nouns: did you visit a coffeehouse or a coffee house?
Duration
00:14:06
Publishing date
2024-02-27 10:00
Link
https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/addictive-WeBO1GhH
Contributors
  Mignon Fogarty
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970. We answer a listener question about the difference between "addictive" and "addicting," and then we look at how to write compound nouns: did you visit a coffeehouse or a coffee house?

| Transcript: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/addictive/transcript

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