Suppose I know two professors. Both of them are old, and both of them study English. Then each one is an old English professor.
Suppose one and only one of them is a scholar of Old English. Then that one would be an Old English professor.
So far this is unambiguous, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Hyphenated_compound_modifiers
But now I have a question about the other professor.
Is he a non-Old English professor or a non-Old-English professor?
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