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    How do you know if the correct spelling is 'sandbox' or 'sand box'? What are the rules?

    Question #110923. Asked by author. (Nov 21 09 12:51 PM)


    star_gazer

    		Its sandbox.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sandbox

    Nov 21 09, 4:24 PM
    looney_tunes

    		Unfortunately, no rules. Many words in English evolve from an original form of two separate words to become a single compound word, often through an intermediate stage with a hyphenated form.

    http://www.grammarmudge.cityslide.com/articles/article/426348/2805.htm

    Sandbox is the correct spelling in this case for a word that clearly originated from a box of sand, two separate concepts.

    http://www.rickwalton.com/curricul/compound.htm

    Nov 21 09, 4:25 PM
    author

    		So, if the word include "two separate concepts" there is some kind of a rule after all?

    Nov 21 09, 5:35 PM
    star_gazer

    		This site explains that there is no rule for compound words like sandbox.

    http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_35.htm

    Nov 21 09, 5:48 PM

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