Plugins or Plug-ins?

[Jim]

Academically speaking, it's "plug-ins", right?

[Ecuadorian]

I was reading "The Importance of Being Earnest" the other day. Apparently, to-night was the old spelling of tonight.

So eventually, plug-ins will become simply plugins...

[honoluludesktop]

Let me check my "spell check" >_<

[derei]

I guess initially was plug-ins, but the language is made by who uses it I like "plugins".
There is also "extension" or "bundle"(this last one sounds ugly).

[Rich O Brien]

BUt doesn't everythiNg concernEd wiTh SketchUp haVe bIg rEd letteRs aT tHe eNd?
PlugIns

[Bob James]

@unknownuser said:

BUt doesn't everythiNg concernEd wiTh SketchUp haVe bIg rEd letteRs aT tHe eNd?
PlugIns

Too many hours in the pub celebrating the holidays, Rich

[Jim]

@unknownuser said:

BUt doesn't everythiNg concernEd wiTh SketchUp haVe bIg rEd letteRs aT tHe eNd?
PlugIns

That doesn't bug me nearly as much as this:

Yet I can't bring myself to add it to my browser's dictionary.

[thomthom]

My spelling dictionaries always insists it's "plug-ins" - but I teach them otherwise. "Plugins" is so widely used that it'll probably soon be in the dictionaries.

(For anyone that would claim that one should never change language - listen to this: http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/12/22/series-2-episode-3-language/ - you can't argue with Stephen Fry )

[TIG]

@thomthom said:

My spelling dictionaries always insists it's "plug-ins" - but I teach them otherwise. "Plugins" is so widely used that it'll probably soon be in the dictionaries.
(For anyone that would claim that one should never change language - listen to this: http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/12/22/series-2-episode-3-language/ - you can't argue with Stephen Fry )

It's 'Plugins' because we say it is!
A dictionary should NOT tell us how to use or pronounce a word.
A dictionary is a record of a word's usage etc at the moment that the dictionary is written.
If a word isn't in a dictionary it's the dictionary's fault not the word's fault!
Of course we can invent a word, change a word's spelling and a word's use - we always have...
The way we pronounce words shifts across the generations - Shakespeare rhymes 'kind' and 'wind' [as in gale] - but we don't and if we did it's sound very odd...
In the UK we watch 'the news' on TV, and say 'what is the news today?'
A hundred years ago Queen Victoria would have said what are the news today? [as news is clearly plural]
It's also like data and datum, the first is the plural the second is the singular - but datum has long been used as 'a point to measure from', and data as a collection of information itself - 'what is the data we need?' sounds right, 'what are the data we need?' just sounds wrong... although it's 'grammatically' correct!
I was taught that the word 'nice' was a weak term that should only be applied to food - a 'nice cake' - but use of a word as simile/metaphor/analogy is rife - otherwise a ship would never 'plough the oceans'... So pleasant people can be 'nice'... [with the right intonation they would also be 'gay' ]... Also over the centuries 'nice' has had a variety of usages - a couple of hundred years ago was always used in it's inverse sense - we still say 'that's nice!' with a sarcastic tone - meaning it isn't pleasant at all - but Jane Eyre et al would have said someone was 'nice' - meaning he was unpleasant [or dim witted] without entertaining the idea that it could ever be used in another way
That's the great thing about languages - especially English - they evolve over time...

[mitcorb]

That's either a "rap" or a "wrap".

[TIG]

@mitcorb said:

That's either a "rap" or a "wrap".

It's time to 'plugout' [a new word I just invented to mean 'switch-off']

[Bob James]

Plugout: a Plugin that has been removed

As in "causesproblems.rb became an immediate plugout for me".