Learn English – How to write ‘coffee shop’ correctly

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I read this question on math.stackexchange.com. I am not sure if it is correct to write coffee shop' using a hyphen in between. Please advise.

Ex:- coffee-shop

Ps:- Can we consider it as a compound noun? (woodshop is a compound noun as far as I know)

Best Answer

Both versions are used. If we take Google Books as a usage indication, you can see that the non-hyphenated version is by far the more common one.

Note that, unlike "coffee shop", coffeehouse , is more commonly written as one word.

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