Rollercoaster or Roller Coaster

[Ian]

In the private team form, the team are discussing using capital letters and whatnot in #hashtags. We then started to discuss "roller coaster" and "rollercoaster".

Which one do you prefer to use?

 

[Hixee]

I personally would use "roller coaster" as separate words, but I don't think there's anything wrong with "rollercoaster".

Google, Wikipedia and RCDB all seem to use the 'separated' version (even when you search for the 'combined' form):

 

[GuyWithAStick]

Separated. It sounds more official when separated.

 

[ECG]

The noun is roller coaster, while rollercoaster is a verb or adjective meaning to go up and down like a roller coaster as in "The plane rollercoastered through the turbulence" or "OMG, that was a rollercoaster of a flight."

 

[gavin]

^ I hate to be that guy, but it's definitely NOT an adjective and using it as a verb is very tenuous.

Anyway, two words.

 

[ECG]

Just went by this:

verb (used without object)
1. to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall.
2. to experience a period of prosperity, happiness, security, or the like, followed by a contrasting period of economic depression, despair, or the like.
adjective
3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a roller coaster.
4. resembling the progress of a ride on a roller coaster in sudden extreme changeableness.

 

[Ian]

I'm not asking what is the correct way to write it, but your preferred way, or the way you think looks better.

 

[tomahawk]

Two words

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[davidm]

I know its roller coaster, but I frequently write rollercoaster - I think of it as one word so it should be one word.

 

[Rachel]

I think it looks better as one word and that's the way I normally write it.

 

[Bat Fastard]

Seperated.

 

[nadroJ]

I think it looks weird as two separate words. I've always written rollercoaster! I think it looks better.


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[Howie]

Roller coaster might be 'correct'.. but it looks wrong.
I prefer rollercoaster.
Hey, you did ask.

 

[ECG]

You can't argue with The Ohio Players. :wink:

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[caffeine_demon]

I'm not asking what is the correct way to write it, but your preferred way, or the way you think looks better

Lemme check...

ROLLER COASTER
ROLLERCOASTER

hmmm..

Can't decide!

 

[Hyde]

I have always used Roller Coaster, and assumed Rollercoaster was a British spelling; similar to color - colour or aluminum - aluminium.

 

[Ben]

Roller Coaster.

Cause it's like, correct, is probably the biggest reason I use it.

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

Definitely two separate words.