Compound nouns

A situation that is related to the possessive occurs with compound words in Spanish grammar.

In an English expression like "baseball cap," we just put the two words together and have a compound word: baseball cap, kiddy pool; computer desk; ice-cream store.

In Spanish, the main word is given primary status, with the subordinate words placed after the primary word, and joined by the word "of" ( "de"). For instance:

"baseball cap" = "sombrero de beisbol" = "cap of baseball"
"chicken soup" = "sopa de pollo" = "soup of chicken"
"television program = programa de televisión = program of television
"population statistics" - estatísticos de populacíon = statistics of population

Do you agree that you can understand what is said, but don't you also agree that each language has its own way of saying it??
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