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Subject:Re: Hopeless question: fund/raising From:Bastette <bastette -at- sonic -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:13:41 -0800
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:00:15PM -0500, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> I first met "cow-orker" on the Copyediting mailing list, many years ago,
> and have been flinging it wildly ever since. (Geoff, who lived there and
> on many other lists, is rolling his eyes, I can tell. ;-> )
> I found that I much prefer cow-orker to co-worker or coworker. I think
> we should all adopt it.
> Say it with me now: cow-orker. Cow-ORKer.
> EmPHAsis on the middle syllABle.
> I sense a groundswell movement in the making... or possible just gas.
God forbid. I hope you're being facetious. After coming across this
deliberate abomination and the aren't-I-so-ironic vibe it seems to imply,
I have vowed to hyphenate "co-worker" correctly until the end of time. :)
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