Re: Rerender or re-render?

[Beth Agnew <Beth -dot- Agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>]

I too vote for hyphenation. Our goal is always to make things clear and 
easy for the reader. Writing re-render clearly helps the reader more 
than rerender (rear-ender!). Heck, I still hyphenate co-operative.
It keeps the reader from snagging on coop-erative. Now, if you were 
getting into a situation where you had a co-operative re-release of a 
re-rendering engine, you might want to just rethink it all. :-)
--Beth

Odile Sullivan-Tarazi wrote:

>Well, no, it's not in the dictionary.  Perhaps too new a term?  Not 
>commonly used in the general language?
>
>But I mean, in terms of general principles, would you hyphenate it or 
>not?  I'd thought perhaps so because of the double "re" at the 
>beginning of the word, but I see "rerelease" in AH.  MW's not much 
>help, unless I'm missing something in my haste.  A Google search 
>turns up the solid form in common use.  But these are all manner of 
>blogs and casual discussions.  I haven't had a chance to diligently 
>search published sources.
>
-- 
Beth Agnew, Professor
Co-ordinator, Technical Communication Program
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Toronto, ON
416-491-5050 x3133
http://www.senecatechcomm.com


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