[Ipg-smz] Colanders

[Ken Hess]

Why wouldn't co-partner just be partner?
Thanks,

Ken

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:58 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com>
wrote:

> Co-leader would be correct for AP style according to the stylebook:
>
> Retain the hyphen when forming nouns, adjectives and verbs that indicate
> occupation or status:
> co-author       co-pilot
> co-chairman     co-respondent (in a divorce suit)
> co-defendant    co-signer
> co-host co-sponsor
> co-owner        co-star
> co-partner      co-worker
> (Several are exceptions to Webster's New World College Dictionary in the
> interests of consistency.)
> As part of a formal title before a name: co-President Alexa Manola,
> co-Executive Director Alfredo Hudson. But Smith Electric Co-Op if that
> is the formal name.
> Use no hyphen in other combinations:
> coed    cooperate
> coeducation     cooperative
> coequal coordinate
> coexist coordination
> coexistence     copay
> Cooperate, coordinate and related words are exceptions to the rule that
> a hyphen is used if a prefix ends in a vowel and the word that follows
> begins with the same vowel.
>
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> http://fossforce.com
>
> On 11/29/18 6:14 PM, Alan Zeichick wrote:
> > An article I’m reading keeps referring to a certain open-source
> contributor as the “coleader” of the project.
> >
> > Ugh, I keep reading that as “colander,” and that makes the story quite a
> strain to digest.
> >
> > Shouldn’t that be co-leader?
> >
> > -A
> >
> >
>
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