TheAttachedMama Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) Which is the correct spelling of homeschool?   homeschool or home-school or home school This is for an embroidered shirt and it will be used as an adjective. Ex: Homeschool Team (I really ought to know this by now!) hahaha Edited April 8, 2019 by TheAttachedMama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitgrl Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 It seems to me one usually sees it as a compound word. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I always use homeschool. But I am not the official word or anything. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I use it as a compound word: homeschool. Home-School sounds like a partnership between two entities and Home School could work, but it's weird. 😄 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 As a compound word. The hyphenated version is usually used to note a collaboration between home and school- ie, a "home-school connection." I see that on our public school's website all the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 homeschool--one word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 I think it started out as home school, but has slowly evolved into homeschool. Â So I vote for homeschool. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 13 hours ago, J-rap said: I think it started out as home school, but has slowly evolved into homeschool.  So I vote for homeschool. Oh, I think it started out as one word and it got made into two words later, possibly by the folks who prefer "home educate" instead of "homeschool." 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 3 minutes ago, Ellie said: Oh, I think it started out as one word and it got made into two words later, possibly by the folks who prefer "home educate" instead of "homeschool." 🙂 Hmmm... no big deal, but from everything I've read, it started as "home school" and then slowly became "homeschool" as it became a more popular thing to do.  Of course "home educate" is different.  You can't very well say "homeeducate." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 CollegeBoard puts Home School on my kids SAT and AP score reports. School is not stated on my kids ACT reports. California department of education use homeschool and home school on their webpages.  I just use homeschool in daily usage for convenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blendergal Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Homeschool. We used to write E-mail. Then it was e-mail. Now it’s email. That’s the trend, generally. As time passes and terms become more familiar to us, we tend to drop the uppercase letters, spaces, and hyphens. Just smooooosh it together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wathe Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 I've wondered this too. The Well Trained Mind website seems to use "homeschool". And the Canadian Oxford Dictionary also spells it "homeschool". So homeschool it is for my homeschool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenecho Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) I've always seen it as "homeschool," even if spell check has a tizzy about that (one more place it hasn't caught up to our homeschool lingo, along with printables, manipulatives, etc.). Edited April 10, 2019 by goldenecho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrichor Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 On 4/9/2019 at 1:07 PM, J-rap said: Â You can't very well say "homeeducate." of course not, you'd have to drop one of the "e"s to make it work. "homeducate" or "homeducation" Â LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 (edited) On 4/9/2019 at 12:07 PM, J-rap said: Hmmm... no big deal, but from everything I've read, it started as "home school" and then slowly became "homeschool" as it became a more popular thing to do.  Of course "home educate" is different.  You can't very well say "homeeducate." Yeah, we had this discussion on VegSource upwards of 20 years ago. 🙂 I think that since there is no final authority, we just have to go with what looks better to us. 🙂 I'm pretty sure that John Holt and his followers wrote "homeschool," and they were the earliest recognizable homeschoolers, in the 70s. I think when the Christian baby boomers (like me) started in the early 80s, they wrote "home school." Why? IDK. I remember having a discussion with a well-educated woman who was a leader in a statewide association. She was opposed to "home school" *and* "homeschool,* preferring "home educate" instead. She explained it to me in one-syllable words, and I still couldn't figure out WTH she was trying to say. But when we were just talking, she always used "homeschool/home school." Made me think of my in-laws, who began writing their son 's name as Robert instead of Bobby, but when they were having actual conversation, they said Bobby. But when you *say* "home educate" or "homeschool," you can't hear whether it's one word or two, so there's that. Funny. 🙂 Edited April 12, 2019 by Ellie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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