Here's an interesting word-cognition thing.

I saw the phrase "swim goggle," and it took me about 15 seconds to realize it didn't say "swim Google." I was confused. What is a "swim Google."

I've seen linguistics studies on things like this before!

I probably see the word "Google" 2000x more than I see "goggle."

"Goggles" obviously goes with "swim" though. But because I usually see it plural— "swim goggleS"— my brain didn't process it.

#linguistics #WordNerd