Can someone please explain how "lampost" is an acceptable abbreviation for "lamp post"?

@NosmoKing So [b]"you"[/b] are in fact an anachronist. Very few are! Formal no longer exists in English.

Old Puritan joke far older than myself as told by a grandfather figure when I was very young.

[quote]A Puritan and his wife sat on their porch watching the passers by. The man said to his wife:

My dear Martha, me thinks everyone except me and [b][u]thee[/u][/b] a bit queer.

Pause..

And then at times me thinks [b][u]thee[/u][/b] a bit queer as well.[/quote]

Sort of fitting for this word parlance.

Fitting because even the Puritan's language changed.

And fitting because [b]"you"[/b] obviously refuse to see the point:

[center][b][u] [c=#002673]Language changes![/c][/u][/b][/center]
Or does everyone go around saying:

Doth seemeth a bit queer!

[center]Live with it!!![/center]
Formating put in because that's an item that has changed. As well as this...: 🙄

@NosmoKing Your refusal to change prevents you from even looking at one of the most widely used dictionaries.

What I can I say more?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lamppost

Note it's not "lamp post"

@NosmoKing Language changes like everything. Or else dies. In either case we both will not be around to know, yet history is overwhelmingly in my favor.

@NosmoKing And I would rather be apart of that change, guide it's direction, than be ignored.

Good luck in being rock steady hardlined. The past is a good place to reminisce. 😊

@NosmoKing Yep, has it's own mathematical vector. Look up rates of change or derivatives. Beginning calculus.

@NosmoKing Yep, no apostrophe. Deal with it instead of changing the topic.

Oh I forgot. You do not like change. Kind of oxymoronic there. You do not like change yet you keep on changing the topic. 😊

Language changes!

@NosmoKing Nor is your trolling on others language acceptable!

What you are doing is precisely that. Trolling. Which is why I keep on replying.

Maybe when you have reached 500 blocks you will learn that correcting others language is not only not acceptable yet also rude. Maybe.

A real troll won't block. So just in case you are just rude and only playing at trolling, I thank you ahead of time. 😊