Re: Onsite or on-site?

["Meryl R. Cohen" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Gee, I'm a Coop member and have lived in the Cambridge area (sorta) since
1981, yet I never noticed the Coop diaeresis. I did notice that my brother
(also a TW) uses one where he has the word cooperated in his resume. I've
tried--without success--to get him to change it. These days it's just either
precious or pretentious.

Though maybe he's onto something.

Meryl

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Susan W Gallagher <susanwg -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> 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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