There hasn't been any movement on this in 3 years. Anyone have an update? Liz? Alex? Tony? Jacob? Anybody?
I had no idea how bad this issue was. I encountered this today with some press being written on Fort Work in the Dallas media today. When I saw the article posted, I saw a few misquotes about coworking statistics as well as the misspelling of coworking (hyphen included, not the cowering autocorrect). When I requested that both be corrected, the writer told me she could change (or omit) the quotes, but that AP style guides forbid her from changing the spelling of coworking. Here's her actual response (C+P'ed below): Hi Oren, I’ll take a look at the microsite — thank you! I’ll also rework your quote, or take it out entirely to make to correct the statement. On the word co-working, this is an AP style that’s out of our control. Again, I’ll take a look at the details first thing in the morning and will make the changes immediately. Thank for the email. I really appreciate it. Take care, On Thursday, September 1, 2011 4:29:20 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > For a while now we've been annoyed about the resurgence in the use of > the hyphenated version of the word coworking. As you all know, most > major media outlets these days write it as co-working. > Deskmag recently published an article explaining why this is > happening: it's because the AP Stylebook has decided that co-working > is the correct form. > However, we'd like to ask for your assistance in helping AP change > their minds! We've put out a call for people to bombard AP with the > following tweet: > > @APStylebook #Coworking is not Co-working. It’s an independent > movement that doesn’t want to be separated by a hyphen! > > For a backgrounder on why we think the word should be without a > hyphen, have a read of the article: > http://www.deskmag.com/en/coworking-or-co-working-with-hyphen-252 > > What do you all think? I know this is an old issue, but it's important > to get the name right, right? > > Sophie > Deskmag/Deskwanted -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
