UNCOORDINATED ... what a peculiar word. I always want to hyphenate it but know that I shouldn't...

[gigglewitch]

I mean writing or typing uncoordinated looks so odd [or is it just me?] It aggravates me - and I use it frequently as i have a son who IS "it" - and work with people with various disabilities, who are "it".
Sorry, ramble over. Any thoughts from you Great Pedants?

[policywonk]

You can hyphenate it if you like - the sky won't fall in. Without hyphen is more common now, but hyphening isn't positively incorrect (using 'hyphening' as a verb almost certainly is positively incorrect, however).

[HassledAtHeathrow]

My Most Hated omitted hyphen is the one omitted from the word 'coworkers', chiefly by Americans.

Sounds like someone who orks cows. Which makes me think of someone norking cows. Which I suppose means flashing their tits at cows.

[policywonk]

LOL Hassled. Americans will ellide anything (just look at their sandwiches).

Are you actually at Heathrow right now? Have you been there for some time?

[HassledAtHeathrow]

Not at Heathrow thank god. I changed to this name to make a joke on the 'what cock-ups at work have you made' thread.

[policywonk]

Gotcha. Had visions of a BA staffer hiding under a desk.

[WallOfSilence]

I had an article to type up yesterday, one of those where an 80-year-old woman with victorian writing scribbled down on the back of a fag box.. she had listed all the acts at a charity concert.

Among them was a 'yoedlr'. It took me about 20 minutes and a dictionary to discover she meant a yodeller!

[gigglewitch]

lol @ cow norking how about cow working? Meaning that one works with cows? oops, shouldn't have said that.
Thank you policywonk, as i really do have Chicken Licken Tendencies I am pleased to hear that the sky won't fall in if I give in to my hyphenating compulsion

[HassledAtHeathrow]

...or should that be Turkey-Lurkey?

[gigglewitch]

now, should it...?


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