Talk:cooperate

Correct spelling

The online OED only lists co-operate and doesn't make any mention of cooperate or coöperate. I'm not sure how I would go about citing this since it requires a subscription to access (I access it via my university)Shadebug 00:00, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

It certainly mentions cooperate, some of the quotes use it too. I've no idea about coöperate. If you want to add it to the page, it should go in the ===Dictionary notes=== section. Conrad.Irwin 00:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

From my reading of it it only has cooperate in quotes, suggesting it's no longer valid. It doesn't have alternate spellings in the title like flavour/flavor and judgement/judgment, nor does it cf. like naive and naïf Shadebug 07:59, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

FWIW, in the US, judging from a search on COCA (400MM words), cooperate (which may include coöperate} has 3900+ occurrences vs 47 for co-operate. In the UK, judging from a search on BNC, co-operate outnumbers cooperate by a bit more than 2 to 1. DCDuring TALK 23:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)