Don't mind me, just telling an author "'cocksucker' is one word per m-w. com, changing this to match". Like you do.
@rosefox @Annaleen @2muchexposition but when do we think it transitioned from a hyphenated compound to a single word? 1960s?
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@chaosprime@rosefox@Annaleen It looks like cocksucker took the lead around '47 and has been well ahead since: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cocksucker%2Ccock+sucker%2Ccock-sucker&year_start=1920&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccocksucker%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccock%20sucker%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccock%20-%20sucker%3B%2Cc0 … -
@chaosprime@rosefox@Annaleen Though standard caveats apply about representation of cursing in written language being compromised.
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