Hopeless question: fund/raising

[Bastette]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:00:15PM -0500, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:

 > I first met "cow-orker" on the Copyediting mailing list, many years ago,
 > and have been flinging it wildly ever since. (Geoff, who lived there and
 > on many other lists, is rolling his eyes, I can tell. ;->  )
 > I found that I much prefer cow-orker to co-worker or coworker. I think
 > we should all adopt it. 
 > Say it with me now: cow-orker.   Cow-ORKer.       
 > EmPHAsis on the middle syllABle.
 > I sense a groundswell movement in the making... or possible just gas.

God forbid. I hope you're being facetious. After coming across this
deliberate abomination and the aren't-I-so-ironic vibe it seems to imply,
I have vowed to hyphenate "co-worker" correctly until the end of time. :)

I vote for gas.

Joyce