What Are Words went number one in Sweden on July 1, 2011 and remained for 8 straight weeks. It was awarded a 2X platinum certification in Sweden on September 20, 2011. What Are Words "What Are Words" is a hit song written by Rodney Jerkins, Andre Lindal and Lauren Christy, and performed by American singer Chris Medina. It was released on February 25, 2011, the day after his surprising elimination on the reality TV show American Idol. The song is a tribute to his fiancée who suffered a brain injury as the result of a car wreck and is about promises, commitment and
Compound (linguistics) "foot" and "path"—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word "blackbird", composed of the adjective "black" and the noun "bird". With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component stem. The process occurs readily in other Germanic languages for different reasons. Words can be concatenated both to mean the same as the sum of two words (e.g. "Pressekonferenz"—German for press conference) or where an adjective and noun are compounded (e.g. "hvidvinsglas"—Danish for white wine glass). The addition of affix morphemes to words (such as suffixes or prefixes,