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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it really a contraction if it's just two words stuck together? Pretty sure a contraction is shortened.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Those are Snape’s words, not mine. I suppose the proper term is Compound.