The pressure of the Internet age has resulted in about 16,000 words losing their hyphens according to a Reuters report by Simon Rabinovitch. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream, pot-belly is pot belly, and cry-baby is crybaby. Graphic designers do not like hyphens also because it makes a word more bulky. According to this report, “Researchers examined a corpus of more than 2 billion words, consisting of full sentences that appeared in newspapers, books, websites and blogs from 2000 onwards.” Some other words that were formerly hphenated, but are now split in two are: fig leaf, hobby horse, pin money, test tube, and water bed. Words that were formerly hyphenated but are now unified are:  bumblebee, chickpea, crybaby, leapfrog, logjam, lowlife, pigeonhole, touchline, and waterborne.