Poll: Video Game (Videogame), One Word or Two?

[SavingPrincess]

I've been known to type it both ways. Is there a general consensus about the structure of this all important word/phrase?

If by definition we call videogame a word, does that not mean it has to be not two words?[footnote]Aren't awkwardly phrased double-negatives cool?[/footnote]

 

[Legion]

I tend to separate them personally. Although that's more because it stops my spell checker bugging me about it.

 

[Marter]

I usually type it out as two words. It just seems proper to me, I'm not sure why.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Oddly enough, I consider video game to be separated, but website to be one word.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

2, because that's good English.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

I spell it out as two seperate words. It's a habit and it doesn't look right as just one word.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Two seperate words. It's for the sake of writing it down, mainly. My teachers are picky on the English of my papers.

 

[Meggiepants]

2 words. I don't type board game as one word, or sports game as one word. Video is a an adjective in this case, and game is the noun.

 

[Srdjan]

Onewordbecausemyspacebuttondoesn'twork.

 

[SavingPrincess]

2 words. I don't type board game as one word, or sports game as one word. Video is a an adjective in this case, and game is the noun.

But you have the Wide World of Sports, or Sportcenter... but you can't have the Wide World of Video or Videocenter, as those would sound like TV shops.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

2 words. Microsoft word told me so.

 

[soren7550]

I'd say it's two.

 

[SavingPrincess]

2 words. Microsoft word told me so.

If that's the litmus test by which things are measured these days, god help us all.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

My spell-check says it's two words.

I still tend to write it as a single word though.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

2 words. Microsoft word told me so.

If that's the litmus test by which things are measured these days, god help us all.

If this is the response to jokes these days, god help us all.

OT: It's 2 words, but I spell it as one sometimes, doesn't really matter.

 

[Meggiepants]

2 words. I don't type board game as one word, or sports game as one word. Video is a an adjective in this case, and game is the noun.

But you have the Wide World of Sports, or Sportcenter... but you can't have the Wide World of Video or Videocenter, as those would sound like TV shops.

Isn't Sportscenter a proper noun though? It's the name of a show, right? Or are you talking about something else.

If it's the name of a show one, then all I have to say about that is proper nouns don't have to follow the general English rules.

 

[Amberella]

I always typed them apart. :3 Video game.

 

[Yureina]

Two words.

 

[Good morning blues]

Two words. We speak English, not German.

 

[SavingPrincess]

2 words. I don't type board game as one word, or sports game as one word. Video is a an adjective in this case, and game is the noun.

But you have the Wide World of Sports, or Sportcenter... but you can't have the Wide World of Video or Videocenter, as those would sound like TV shops.

Isn't Sportscenter a proper noun though? It's the name of a show, right? Or are you talking about something else.

If it's the name of a show one, then all I have to say about that is proper nouns don't have to follow the general English rules.

Yes, but Sports is fine without "game", it means the same thing. Video without "game" is a completely different thing; therefore "video game (videogame)" is a noun that requires it to be a single entity else it loses all meaning. Just something I've been thinking about.