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This is one I've been wondering about for awhile: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=cooperation.co-operation http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=cooperat
by jsmeaton 12y ago
This is one I've been wondering about for awhile:
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=cooperation.co-operation http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=cooperation.co-operati...
I thought the change happened somewhere around the 80-90's. Guess it depends on the country also.
- yxhuvud 12y agoIt is too bad it doesn't differentiate between cooperation and coöperation.
- _delirium 12y agoGoogle's version includes coöperation, but it has negligible usage: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cooperation%2Cco-operation%2Cco%C3%B6peration&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cooperation%2C... On the other hand it's possible OCR is missing some of those ¨ and screwing up the data.
- _delirium 12y agoThe Google Books dataset suggests the crossover point was around 1905 in AmE, but not until the late 1970s in BrE (modulo the usual caveats about how their data isn't necessarily a representative sample): AmE: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cooperation%2Cco-operation&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=17 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cooperation%2C... BrE: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cooperation%2Cco-operation&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=18 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cooperation%2C...
- IvyMike 12y agoI think there's a general trend towards dropping the hyphen in common words. Knuth talks about this in his discussion over "e-mail" v "email": http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html