Ar an 8ú lá de mí 4, scríobh Dave Huang :

 > "Co-ordinate" is the British, Canadian, and American-from-n-decades-ago
 > spelling.  The modern American spelling is "coordinate," and it looks
 > like the British spelling is moving to that too.  Canadians really
 > like the hyphen though :).  Since it looks like NetBSD is
 > standardizing on the American spellings, we should go with "coordinate."

I don't think hyphens in this area are a Queen's English vs. Webster issue
at all. I do think having the hyphen there is more considerate towards
non-native speakers, because it underlines that "co-ordinate" isn't
pronounced "koordinet" . The New Yorker adds diaereses, apparently for
exactly this reason, so they have "coördinate," but that's not an option for
ASCII files. 

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