Horn Bow or Hornbow?
I'm sure most any dictionary, if not all, would not have the word hornbow listed. It just kind of crossed my mind that there is the word longbow in dictionaries. I have written both horn bow and hornbow in the past. Should we, as a world-wide group of Asian archery scholars, make hornbow an accepted term in our field, and hope that someday linguists will accept it? Just curious. :)
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I was thinking of this the other day Thomas. I also use both, all of the time in my writing, and I bet even in a paper I wrote I changed it around! I also don't think it matters at all. We are still getting the same 'word(s)' across and we definitely understand what it means. But if it was possible, I would join to try and make hornbow a real, and accepted, word in the world.
I have mostly used them separated: horn bow. However, there is precendent in other languages for them being together. For example, the Chinese characters--from what the Koreans get their name for it--are (Korean pronunciation) "gahkgoong" (角弓). It's supposed to be all one word, but I always romanize it as two ("gahk goong").
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We have the same discussion here about whether you should write 'trade mark' or 'trademark'. Now we have gone over to 'trademark'.
I am starting to use 'hornbow' myself. From a tecchie point of view, though, a search on 'hornbow' would find you less results than a search on 'hornbow'. Google found 818 'hornbows' and 1,270,000 'horn bows' :shock: .
I am starting to use 'hornbow' myself. From a tecchie point of view, though, a search on 'hornbow' would find you less results than a search on 'hornbow'. Google found 818 'hornbows' and 1,270,000 'horn bows' :shock: .