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Ask for help > Breaktime or Break Time? Lunchtime or Lunch Time? Hometime or Home Time?
Breaktime or Break Time? Lunchtime or Lunch Time? Hometime or Home Time?
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izulia
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Breaktime or Break Time? Lunchtime or Lunch Time? Hometime or Home Time?
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Hello dear teachers! Happy New Year to you all!!!
The year just started but I already need your help...
I normally write a timetable for the day in one of the corners of the whiteboard for my primary students. Here is an example:
1. English
Breaktime
2. Maths
Lunchtime
3. Science
Breaktime
4. Art
Hometime
We call breaktimes �playtimes � or �breaks � sometimes (not recess). We refer to the lunchtime as lunch too.
Here is my question:
I am not entirely sure about the spelling. Do you write �breaktime �, �playtime �, �lunchtime �, hometime � as one word or two words?
Thank you
Zulia |
3 Jan 2011
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libertybelle
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Don �t know about the compound words - but in American schools, the break is also called recess.
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3 Jan 2011
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redcamarocruiser
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/breaktime says you can write breaktime as one word, which surprised me. Microsoft word counts breaktime as an error and suggests
break time, which I what I would write. But breaktime seems to be accepted by the dictionary.
Lunchtime is correct.
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3 Jan 2011
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