RE: Hopeless question: fund/raising

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

My opinion is that "Fund-raising" is the correct form if this were a new
term, but the term has been around awhile, so "fundraising" is appropriate.
By contrast, the term "co-worker" has been around awhile, so we may accept
"coworker" as an appropriate form for the term, but it is too easy read
"cow" in the word and misread the word as "cow-worker" or worse,
"cow-orker," whatever that could be.  So the hyphen remains in "co-worker,"
but "fundraising" no longer requires a hyphen due to its widespread
acceptance as a proper word.

Incidentally, Outlook likes all forms of "fundraising," but doesn't like
"spellcheck" or "Firefox."

Lauren

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> ] On Behalf Of Susan Hogarth
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: Hopeless question: fund/raising
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> >  On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Susan Hogarth 
> <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >  > 1) Fund raising
> >  >
> >  >  2) Fundraising
> >  >
> >  >  3) Fund-raising
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Bill Swallow 
> <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > #2 (psst... it's in the dictionary)
> 
> I agree with Dori that the other two are unacceptable, but at least
> one of them is ALSO 'in the dictionary'. So please... let's not be
> snarky :-/
> 
> Incidentally, Firefox's spellcheck-thing doesn't like #2. Of course,
> it also thinks 'spellcheck' should be two words.
> 
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