I will like to know how we can explain why the term database is not spelt separately. Am I correct by saying that only compound adjective is spelt separately and not compound nouns?
But I searched from the internet and found an article that says database is not spelt separately nor used with a hyphen. Data base or data-base are considered obsolete. I just wonder what could be the reason that those two are not acceptable. Is there any grammatical reason for that? I am very interested to know reasons.(if any)
Originally it was used as two words: data base or data-base. Over time it has become a combined word: database - probably because people started to write it as one word and just never corrected it.