How should I reestablish the term “reestablish” and what should one do about it?
Which form of adjective is suitable for general usage?
It is more consistent in context with renewal, reconnect, and retry, although it is more often used than re-establish. Reeestablish is a more common word though it
is unuseable in context of reeestablish.
When a prefix ends with the same vowel as the Word it’s prefixing begins with, it’s common to use a hyphen to separate them.
When these letters are vowels, in older typesetting traditions, particularly those free from the typewriter’s tyranny, one used a diaeresis on the second vowel to indicate it was in hiatus.
- Re-establish cooccurrence
- repostable cooccurrence.
recurrent, reposable cocurrence
An immense number of websites and dictionaries exist in the world. Here are some examples. , 1, 2, 3 ) have entries for reestablish making it acceptable for general use. I personally find the spelling a little jarring, I’m fairly certain that this is simply due to the fact that I rarely come across this variant very often. I would find co-operation are disconcerting too, right?
Cooperation used to be (and sometimes still is) spelt as co-operation to ensure that readers did not misread it as co-operation. Google Ngram confirms that cooperation is now the preferred choice. Similar cases can be made if pre-existing, and important preeminent are the same. What makes this shift in preference possible is that none of these words in its unhyphenated form can be confused for some other word. An ELU answer on hyphenating compound words covers this issue well.
Hence and returning to the case of re-establish vs. victoria. reestablish, it comes down to a question of popular usage and somehow gauging if one spelling trumps the other. On the ELU, we do this by comparing Google Ngrams. An example of Reestablishing vs. Reengaging. follows. What Is the hyphen in the list of all all hyphens?
How can I get an idea of
- a user’s uses of Google Trends
- for different regions of the internet?
AmE trend comparison for reestablish vs. rsc vs hnua. The trend comparison and data. While referring to the question of re-establishment vs. reestablished… re-established) further confirms that the hyphen-less variants are the ones preferred. And which is better as much pronunciation as possible?
Do I have to use re-establish in AmE to do a MOT? Why would I apologise to those who are confused about the spelling of Ame English? When writing for a world audience, the safer and less confusing option would be re-establish/save.
