The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might once have been hyphenated are increasingly left with spaces or are combined into one word. Reflecting this changing usage, in 2007, the sixth edition of the "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" removed the hyphens from 16,000 entries, such as "fig-leaf" (now "fig leaf"), "pot-belly" (now "pot belly") and "pigeon-hole" (now "pigeonhole"). The increasing prevalence of computer technology and the advent of the Internet have given rise to a subset of common nouns that might have been hyphenated in the past (e.g. "toolbar", "hyperlink", "pastebin").