And lo on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:16:25 -0000, Hildur K.  
<hil### [at] 3dcafemailevery1net> did spake, saying:

> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> And lo on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:46:32 -0000, Hildur K.
>> <hil### [at] 3dcafemailevery1net> did spake, saying:
>>
>
>> Potshard; it's a special case though as you don't have glassshard. You
>> could have glass-shard though etc. but it's normally unhyphenated.
>>
> Thanks :-) Always trying to add to my vocabulary.

or Potsherd. In archaelogy a sherd is a part of a broken pot and a shard  
is part of broken glass, but you can still have a potshard. Got to love  
this language.

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