Seat belts and seahorses and cell phones have divided the BuzzFeed copy desk. We need you to help us decide how they should be written.
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A recent update to the Associated Press Stylebook, the so-called "journalist's bible," unearthed a previously unknown fissure in the BuzzFeed copy desk: the word "seat belt." According to AP, it's "seat belt, two words."
But a few of our editors felt otherwise: There were "very strong feelings" against the two-word variation, as well as talk of moving to BuzzFeed's London office, where British English reigns supreme and all bets on standard American English are off. So we're kicking it out to you, our readers, to resolve our issues, once and for all.
One stipulation for all of you nitpicking grammarians: Let's consider each of these options nouns — no verbs or adjectives. So, that said, how should we style these headache-inducing words?
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