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#227954 - 20/07/2004 13:10 Question for the Grammar Police
CrackersMcCheese pooh-bah Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2489	Is it coordinator or co-ordinator ?
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#227955 - 20/07/2004 13:24 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
jmwking old hand Registered: 27/02/2003 Posts: 777 Loc: Washington, DC metro	or Coördinator? -jk
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#227956 - 20/07/2004 13:36 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Either. More common modern usage is without the hyphen. And it'd be "cöordinate" (with the diacritic over the first vowel) if you decided to use a diaeresis, which you shouldn't. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#227957 - 20/07/2004 13:42 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: wfaulk]
peter carpal tunnel Registered: 13/07/2000 Posts: 4180 Loc: Cambridge, England	Quote: And it'd be "cöordinate" (with the diacritic over the first vowel) if you decided to use a diaeresis, which you shouldn't. I think it's the second vowel. Peter
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#227958 - 20/07/2004 13:49 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: wfaulk]
jmwking old hand Registered: 27/02/2003 Posts: 777 Loc: Washington, DC metro	Quote: And it'd be "cöordinate" (with the diacritic over the first vowel)... And I'll respectfully disagree. [Edit: Too slow!] -jk Edited by jmwking (20/07/2004 13:50)
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#227959 - 20/07/2004 13:50 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: peter]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Yeah, I thought of similar examples, too. But I could swear that it's the first one in "coordinate". Maybe because it's the same vowel twice? Or maybe I'm just completely wrong. Regardless, it's moot since no one (noöne?) uses diaereses any more anyway. At least unless they're being pretentious. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#227960 - 20/07/2004 13:53 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: wfaulk]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Yeah. The second vowel. Everyone else is right. (It just looked funny to me that way and that's usually enough for my brain. Not this time.) _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#227961 - 20/07/2004 16:10 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: wfaulk]
mtempsch pooh-bah Registered: 02/06/2000 Posts: 1996 Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden	Quote: At least unless they're being pretentious. Hey! Hope you mean in English or else we are a pretentious bunch over here in Sweden... But we use 'ä' and 'ö' as their own letters, part of the alphabet along with 'å', tacked on at the end after the 'z'... _________________________ /Michael
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#227962 - 20/07/2004 16:12 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: mtempsch]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Yeah. In English. You Swedes (and Germans and Norwegians and Danes) are pretentious regardless of your diacritics. Edited by wfaulk (20/07/2004 16:13) _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#227963 - 20/07/2004 17:01 Re: Question for the Grammar Police [Re: wfaulk]
mtempsch pooh-bah Registered: 02/06/2000 Posts: 1996 Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden	_________________________ /Michael
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