The examples also exemplify the three forms that compound words take: 1) open compound (snail mail); 2) hyphenated compound (eagle-eyed); and 3) solid compound (bookworm).

Ar—cher—Ja—cob! Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.

We bet you know lots of hosers, eh. And you want to help them not be hosers.

a certain sense of resentment at economically successful countries (what the Irish themselves call their national vice of begrudgery)