Re: Onsite or on-site?

Subject: Re: Onsite or on-site?
From: "Susan W Gallagher" <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:17:16 -0800

When I was in grammar school, many long years ago, "cooperation" wasn't a
word yet. It was either spelled with the hyphen (co-operation) or with a
diaeresis over the second o (coöperation). It wasn't until sometime in the
1960s, if I recall correctly, that the compound started to close.

The bookstore at Harvard University is called "The Coop", and not "The
Co-op", giving reference to common misreading of the closed compound
(coop-er-ation), but if you look at their logo, you'll see the diaeresis, as
they were established in the 1800s, when "cooperation" was definitely *not*
a word.
http://sevenroads.org/Bookish/HarvardCoopLg.jpg

-Sue Gallagher


On 12/17/08, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
>
> ... I've
> seen people hyphenate "cooperation" as "co-operation," although I
> do not know why,...
> Lauren
>
>
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