Pedants' Corner

[Tony Griffiths]

Does anyone have a plan, a policy, or a strategy?  These perfectly good words seem to have been entirely replaced by "roadmaps"! 
Note also that the one-word form "roadmap" has recently crept in and replaced the correct OED two-word form of "road map".

I read that many now-combined words first migrated to having a hyphen before finally becoming one. Even ski-ing was in use at one time, now of course it's just skiing. There's a hypen thief at large - and it can be horribly confusing: https://blog.oup.com/2007/09/hyphens/