Talk:Note-taking/Archives/2015

Note-taking/Notetaking/Note taking

In 2012, Wxidea renamed this page, noting "Spelling with a hyphen is 10x more common". Is that really true? What I see based on cursory research is that "notetaking" is pretty common. In fact, "notetaking" seems to be the preferred form on Wiktionary. and results are quite mixed looking at Special:WhatLinksHere/Note-taking. A Google Trends lookup and shows "note taking" being preferred, followed by "notetaking", then "note-taking". Barring citation, and without falling into the trap of hypercorrection, it seems that all forms should be noted in the article as valid alternatives, and this should be treated as we treat other differences in spelling, such as yogurt/yoghurt/yoghourt. Thoughts? -- RobLa (talk) 18:27, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it is true. Please see: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=note-taking%2C+notetaking&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cnote%20-%20taking%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnotetaking%3B%2Cc0 Wxidea (talk) 15:26, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, Wxidea, and thanks for pointing me to Ngram generally (it's not something I was aware of as a place to research this type of thing). The Ngram citation does make the convincing case that "note-taking" is more prevalent than "notetaking". The "10x" number is pretty high by the Ngram standards, and more to the point, it would appear that "notetaking" was very common in American English books in the Ngram corpus from around 1985-2000 (albeit still not as common as "note-taking"). I plan on noting that "notetaking" is a frequently-seen spelling, even though I plan to personally use "note-taking" more. -- RobLa (talk) 23:44, 18 July 2015 (UTC)