Talk:acquihire

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As noted, there are many spellings of this word. I suspect that this form (with -ui-, no hyphen) will be most common in future, primarily b/c it’s easy to pronounce and accords with general English phonotactics and spelling – qu, linking (deprecated template usage) -i-, and hyphens tend to disappear over time. It’s also the form in which I saw the word, used by Marc Andreessen (as use, not definition), who is influential and seems a good example of use.

Of course all forms are legitimate, and if the word survives for long some preferred form may emerge, but it still seems pretty young.

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 13:26, 5 November 2013 (UTC)