> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 06:59:14PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > The good old Second edition (which they will only get - Heaven
> > forfend! - by prying it out of my cold dead hands) doesn't list
> > 'coordinate' at all. But the OED ought to trump everything else -
> > including Knuth and Fowler - in such matters, n'est-ce pas?
> 
> "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."
> 

Well, since Fowler published "Modern English Usage" in 1926, and he 
recommends coordinate, I'd hardly say that British English (sic) is only 
moving that way...

R.