Linguistic Evolution

I just realized that aside from using „google“ as a verb like everybody does these days I also think that copy and paste is really one word. More like copy-and-paste. Or copyandpaste. I hardly ever use one without the other anyway.

But the most important thing is that when using it in past tense I would always say „copy and pasted“ (or copyandpasted), when – if it were really more than one word – I would have to say „copied and pasted“. Which I don’t. So it’s one word. End of discussion.