[Forum] RE: Food Co-ops or Co-Ops in headings?

The British love the spelling co-operative, the Americans don't! Even the New Yorker Magazine has its own private spelling of this word: coöperat——. I do appreciate the umlaut on the second 'o' to help the reader pronunce it with some distinction as opposed to merging sounds. Also, I read somewhere

[Forum] RE: Spelling

[quote='Pixna' pid='24813' dateline='1441974784'] [quote='Lingordon' pid='24811' dateline='1441938309'] If by any chance you're publishing in Canada or for Canadians, it's [i]modelling[/i]. [/quote] And possibly the UK too. Proper spelling is in the eye of the country or locale. :) [/quote]

[Forum] RE: Apologize - United Express Flight 3411

I'm probably just going blood-eye blind (patent pending) from the copy I'm going through at the moment, but the only changes I see are the shift to BrE and a spelling correction. I would discourage changing from AmE to BrE (or any other such dialect change) in a quote because it doesn't seem nec

[Forum] Crossmedia, cross-media, cross media

Hello, Does anybody have any thoughts on the correct spelling of "cross-media"? I have come across all three versions (no space, hyphen, space) in approximately equal measures, with articles often spelling it two or even three different ways in the same passage. Could anyone offer some ad

[Forum] RE: hyphens vs. en dashes in pronunciation spelling

Hi, and welcome to the forum. I don't believe there's a particular style rule for pronunciation spelling. I think it just comes down to whatever makes these more readable for your audience, and the font used might also play a part. Personally, I think en dashes are a little overkill and that hyphens

[Forum] RE: Number One

[url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/number%20one]Merriam-Webster[/url] lists the open, spelled-out version in both the noun and adjective forms. M-W is always a great place to start for spelling issues because Chicago and many other styles use its preferences for spelling (see [url=http:/

[Forum] RE: singular and plural irregular nouns (s)

[quote='RGJaxon' pid='18846' dateline='1400591933'] I don't know that its meaning is different. But the second (ies) simply makes more clear what the correct spelling of the plural would be if you were going to use it. "Technologys" is simply wrong spelling. So is it correct to put "technology(s

[Forum] RE: Civic titles with apostrophes (possessive form)

[quote='kaceydonner' pid='36994' dateline='1530640580'] Considering that the s's spelling seems to be part of the official title, do you think it would be best then to use the s's style of possession in my paper instead of the s' style as I originally planned? Or is it permissible to have a paper f

[Forum] RE: Indicating a word is being spelled out in running text?

Sure, the text in question is about a spelling bee, but I run into this ocassionally when the text is about a children's book that spells out words, sometimes cumulatively. Here, for instance, the writer wants to indicate the character is spelling the word out loud. For example, "the child stands be

[Forum] RE: awoke / awakened / awoken

Good point too Jude. I was going to start listing them all too but my head was spinning lol. :) Garner's gives the forms for four verbs (to wake, to awake, to awaken, and to wake up). He extends the past-tense spelling preference noted above to all of the verbs; I imagine that M-W extends its