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  • Compound words. Some words that today are usually written as a single word may in older works be printed as two words separated by a space or a hyphen. The most common cases are handled by se modernize-spelling, however there are so many possible combinations that eliminating or standardizing all of them would be a major challenge. As such it is not required to change compound words, although this can optionally be done provided there is sufficient evidence that a modern printing would do so. The following words are exceptions and should never be modernized (N.B. this does not mean we split them if they are already printed as a single word):