Danbooru

Tag Alias: flyswatter -> fly_swatter

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The space isn't apparently necessary as both with and without the space are valid spellings of it. Wordnet, Merriam-Webster, and Wikipedia spell it without a space. American Heritage Dictionary and Dictionary.com spell it with a space. Oxford Dictionary lists both spellings.

Google doesn't seem to distinguish the two, and they both have ~40 hits in COCA, so I suppose either's fine. As I think I've brought up elsewhere on Danbooru's forums, though, English tends toward formation of compound words from noun collocates like these over time, so I prefer flyswatter.

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