Prerequisite, not pre-requisite. Right?

[JustCats]

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Is "pre-requisite" a recently accepted usage? I just noticed that two threads on the first page of the forum now contain a hyphenated spelling of "prerequisite."

 

[twelvetigers]

Pre-req courses? Prereq? Prereq looks strange. So, pre-req... then it becomes a habit.

That's *my* justification, at least. I only typed pre-requisite because... I wasn't sure the person would know what pre-req meant.

And, I think I'm one of the people that's done this. But it's late. So who knows.

 

[JustCats]

I love your new avatar. Is that a video you made?

Pre-req courses? Prereq? Prereq looks strange. So, pre-req... then it becomes a habit.

That's *my* justification, at least. I only typed pre-requisite because... I wasn't sure the person would know what pre-req meant.

And, I think I'm one of the people that's done this. But it's late. So who knows.

 

[bunnity]

JustCats, I think you're right. When I did medical transcription we were supposed to hyphenate things with adjacent vowels (infero-apical) but not hyphenate things with an adjacent vowel and consonant or adjacent consonants (inferobasal). Then again, the department spelled "provokable" wrong for years, so take that with a grain of salt.

Oh, and I'm totally guilty of saying pre-requisite.