Let's talk about the plurals of compound nouns. I submit to you: passers-by, hangers-on, attorneys general, brothers-in-law, and culs-de-sac. What about "month end" how would that be pluralized?

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Forming a plural is pretty easy, right? You just add an “s” to something. Unless, of course, it’s a word that already ends ...

SMALL PRINT:Ever since a public letter from eight of them was published yesterday, the plural compound noun "attorneys general" has been bandied about a lot. It's a conundrum that puzzles journalists, ...

“We saw people walking out of here with armfuls of bags,” said a mall manager in a recent newspaper article. That statement prompted Nan Glass of Hartford to ask, “Which is the correct usage: ‘armsful ...

There are three ways that compound nouns can be written: with the two nouns making up the compound noun placed together without a space between them, with the two nouns separated by a space, and with ...