Today’s Zits, featuring a capillamentary derangement: (#1) hoodie hair is a “distant” N + N compound, one where the semantic relationship between the two Ns (here, the head N hair ‘head of hair’ and the modifying N hoodie, referring to a  garment with a hood, a piece of built-in headgear) is not one from a … Continue reading Distant compounds: the headgear hair files