Carpark or car park

[William Sakovich]

In British English, is car park best rendered as one word or two? Two words
gets more hits on Google, but there are more than a million hits for the
one-word version too.

Ordinarily I wouldn't use the term, but it is for a job in Singapore, and it
is one of those jobs that is a combined translation with some checks thrown
in, and this is in the checking part.

TIA

- BS

[Nikita Sato]

My intuition and the Oxford Dictionary of English (2005) say two words.

I am in the UK, not Singapore, but Googling "car park" and limiting results
to those in the Singapore domain (.sg) gives 27,200 hits, versus 24,500 for
"carpark".

Nikita Sato @ London, UK

[Brian Chandler]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Sakovich" <sako...@gol.com>
> To: <hon...@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:56 PM
> Subject: Carpark or car park
> > In British English, is car park best rendered as one word or two? Two
> > words
> > gets more hits on Google, but there are more than a million hits for the
> > one-word version too.

Nikita Sato wrote:
> My intuition and the Oxford Dictionary of English (2005) say two words.
>
> I am in the UK, not Singapore, but Googling "car park" and limiting results
> to those in the Singapore domain (.sg) gives 27,200 hits, versus 24,500 for
> "carpark".
>
> Nikita Sato @ London, UK

I don't think either can be "wrong"... my ear says "carpark" (i.e.
it's pronounced as a single word, like blackbird and wheelbarrow),
even though my dictionary (LDEL) gives two words.

The Singapore googit, though, is a strong vote for one word, since
"car park" will also match lots of cases where 'park' is the verb.

Brian Chandler
http://imaginatorium.org

[Matt Stanton]

My gut feel is to go for "car park".

Matt

On Mar 15, 9:26 pm, Brian Chandler <imaginator...@despammed.com>
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