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Poll: Videogames or video games. Which is it?

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Linguists unite! David at buzzcut has just stirred up a whole hornet's nest of cultural confusion. We've all seen both, and maybe some of us have even made up our minds one way or the other, but a decision has to be made. It can't be both. Is it videogames or video games?

He explains his choice this way: on the one hand we have motion pictures, graphic novels, and interactive entertainment, but we don't use tele vision, air craft, the Inter net or joy stick (or joy stiq!). He continues, "I like the single word because it helps clarify the world of videogames as a certain type of game, and not just a qualified class of games like puzzle games or word games." So…

Which one is it?

Videogames

Video Games

  

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