As heard on TV:

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jul 22, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> "as-seen-on-tv product(s)" / "as seen on tv product(s)" gets over a million.
>
> I was looking only at instances in which "as-seen-on-TV" had escaped
> from that semi-fixed phrase, as in "AsSeenOnTV.com" or "Save On As
> Seen On TV at Walmart As Seen On TV," wherein "as seen on TV" is, for
> all practical purposes, a noun.

yes, i understood that, and virtually all of these examples are of that sort, with "as-seen-on-tv" or "as seen on tv" serving as a modifier of "product(s)" in a compound, just as in your "as-seen-on-tv company".

arnold

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