Thankyou isn’t a word.

I was taught this in English class, and it’s official.  It’s not in dictionaries, and Google doesn’t recognise it.

Correctly, it should be two words.  ”Thank” and “you”.

But hold your horses there.  As I understand it, one of the key benefits of the English language is its flexibility.  The first Dictionary was, I believe, German, and it laid down exactly how all the words of the language should be.  The English huffed and puffed about this, and openly mocked the idea.  They then sat down in a library and formed the English language by reviewing every English word ever written.  They set out to be descriptive rather than prescriptive.

And our dictionary evolved.  The scholars in Oxford smugly release a new set of words every year, which they promise we’ll all be using a year from now.  Now they didn’t invent these words.  They acknowledged their use somewhere, and described them.

Ok, so I accept that another idea of a dictionary is to provide a single spelling for each word.  In a language with few rules, none of which are not broken, a defining way of spelling helps us all be understood.

But thankyou is a word.  It has become a word through common usage.  It has a specific meaning and use.
It has 12,500,000 matches on Google.

Let us not reject it.  Let us accept it.

Please sign my petition here:
http://tinypetition.com/thankyou

Thankyou.