RE: Onsite or on-site?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

> From: McLauchlan, Kevin

> I frequently/generally see coop, first, then have to derive 
> co-op from the context.
> 
> I have never - not once - stumbled over co-op (whether it was 
> the name of a store or bank-like entity, or part of a larger word). 

http://www.snfc.coop/

Now you can say that you've seen "co-op."  What's funny is that, although, I
didn't understand why "cooperation" was hyphenated, I completely understand
why "co-op" is hyphenated.  And I've never seen "coop" used as "co-op."

> It might be just me (I'm in my mid-50s),

You seem so much younger in your posts, but in a good way, not in an
immature... oh, never mind.

> but I defy any of 
> you to engage in a conversation - especially written - in 
> which the word coop (koop) is used many times, and then NOT 
> stumble when it's used in sentence to mean co-op.

Former U.S. Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, has engaged in a new farm
co-op project where Koop manages the chicken coop.  Cooperation from the
co-op chickens in their coop is required to make Koop's co-op coop a
success.

That statement will not work well without hyphens.

> I never used the diaeresis because it wasn't on my typewriter.  :-)

I had coffee.  Oh wait, that's dieresis, not diuretic.  =)

Lauren



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