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 * From my reading of it it only has cooperate in quotes, suggesting it's no longer valid.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)