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mkenuk

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airbrick
« on: May 24, 2021, 01:25:13 PM »
re the recent brickbat 7-by-many.

I tried to play airbrick which I know from time spent while a student labouring on a building site.

Basically, they are building bricks with holes in them to allow ventilation.

COD shows it as 'British' (I don't know what these things are called elsewhere)  but the name is written as a single word.

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Re: airbrick
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2021, 01:59:19 PM »
I tried airbrick & when it was rejected, i just assumed that it must be 2 words.

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Re: airbrick
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2021, 04:02:00 PM »
Airbrick as a single word is in the online Oxford and Collins dictionaries and Wiktionary. It's even in the Cambridge Advanced Learners' Dictionary. However I didn't see it in any US dictionary. Oxford labels it British, and Collins mainly British.

Most usage examples I found were indeed from British sources. Some people write it as two words and some as one.

I don't know whether such bricks are called something else in other parts of the world, or if they're simply not used.

At any rate, airbrick will be accepted in future, as a rare word.
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