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Gu-Hoon Kwon Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Master piece

Are "masterpiece" and "master piece" the same? I saw the sentence below in a book.

The vast majority will select Orson Welles’ 1941 master piece Citizen Kane.
  

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Gu-Hoon Kwon master piece This is a mistyping. com/d/word/master-piece ), so it could have been two words only much earlier than that.

  • Gu-Hoon Kwon master piece This is a mistyping.
  • com/d/word/master-piece ), so it could have been two words only much earlier than that.
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Gu-Hoon Kwonmaster piece
This is a mistyping. In 1828, the word was hyphenated ( http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/master-piece ), so it could have been two words only much earlier than that.

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