>>>>>Except that I said "Power games are now a co-ed sport." That would make my use of 'co-ed' an adjective, not a noun.
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>>It's past participle of the verb "co-" :). How does one co- a sport is yet to be defined, but we now have a verb for it, as someone is done it already to power games as a sport.
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>>>>There now seems to be a quorum of the Pedants Club....
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>>>Ok, let's see. There are 3 distinct meanings of the word 'quorum', and the same of the word 'pedant'. That means 9 different ways in which I could take that statement. Therefore, I probably resent it, but until you are more clear, I'm not sure whether I do or not.
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>>Don't. Just don't. I mean, don't take that statement at all, not anywhere. Leave it where it is, and you'll see, nothing bad will happen.
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>>Now, back to the subject. The need to have a separate word for "education in a {strike}sexuall{/strike} mixed gender environment", and create that word as a derivation from "education" is a tacit confession that Proper Education is monogender But We Are Making a Generous Exception.
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>>Why couldn't it be just students, and just education?
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>>And, you still haven't found the one thing that would make me retract all this (except the verb "co-", which is just... my software solution for today :), and that is the example of at least one girl college, which was converted into mixed, and where the male students were then called co-eds. If you can't find one, I'll stay with my statement, that term "co-ed" should be taken as an insult. That's where I'd train the PC police's sights.
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>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-12-12-women-college_x.htm
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>Actually you seldom hear 'co-eds' to describe the students (I don't think I ever have in fact) but rather coed gym (gym class where both girls and boys attend the same class) or coed school (school where both girls and boys attend).

Yay Tracy!

And Dragan,

So there!