'word' words

[Andrea Morrow]

I agree with Mark - it seems to me that the name of the breed has been
re-analyzed in some people's minds to "collie dog" - parallel perhaps
to sheepdog.  Many people around me (rural Michigan) call collies
"collie dogs" - including my parents, who have owned several.

Andrea


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>  "?Dog puppy" is odd, I agree. "Collie dog puppy", IYHO, not mine. I
> hear it as ((collie dog) puppy), which I have no idiomatic problem
> with. (Collie (dog puppy)) would be weird, I agree.
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> Mark Mandel
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