I'm with you on this WGS, but it seems that English changes, as distinct from grows. Take a look at
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157897664139339&id=604134338&set=gm.2725331684155537&source=57, an old Dover electoral roll. Quite apart from Swingfield and Folkstone (sic) being Dover's last territorial claims in Europe, and the laborer (presumably American) living in Above-wall, it seems that streetnames were written with a hyphen: Snargate-street and so forth.
Apologies if I've mentioned this before, but I noted from a recent GCSE exam paper (I did this last academic year, it now being forbidden for invigilators to do such a thing) that the preferred spelling for compound CuSO4 is Copper Sulfate. I really don't remember being consulted on this!