Re: Onsite or on-site?

["Susan W Gallagher" <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You're correct that the compound has been around long enough to legitimately
lose the hyphen. To me, whether you should drop the hyphen or not depends on
your audience. Young, progressive, leading edge? (game developers,
advertising execs) Drop it. Older, staid, conservative? (bankers,
accountants) Keep it in.

My two cents.
-Sue Gallagher


On 12/17/08, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Onsite or on-site?
>
> Thogh I know both are correct, I believe the former has seen enough common
> usage since it was coined in the '60s so as to warrant it being usede
> without hypenation.
>
> What so you?
>
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