As a marketer, I am constantly working with blogs, promotional content and white papers. There are always words and phrases that are either new to me or cause confusion due to the existence of variations of the same word. This goes for one of the words I use on a regular basis, and it is even more important since it is actually a service we provide. Server Colocation is the culprit that keeps my editors and word processing software hard at work. My word processor sometimes turns colocation into all sorts of other words. Even as I write this, my program is confused. One would think it would be a simple fix of adding the word to the software’s dictionary, and it is, but only until it is time to edit the document.

This is nothing new. I am used to this, and on many occasions spell check, copy editors and others question and challenge my spelling of Colocation.

Microsoft Word often decides to change colocation to collocation without my consent and without even asking me what was intended. Fed up and tired of my editors and word processing software, I turned to Google. Ah, yes, good ol’ Google. I feverishly Googled “Colocation, Collocation, Co-location”, and to my surprise the first result was a blog by Sune Christensen entitled Co-location? Colocation? Collocation? (At least I’m not the only one with this problem!) Statistically speaking, Atlantic.Net uses the correct term, but I wanted to break it down even further and get to the meaning instead of statistics.

So, after much effort… I unveil my findings! (more…)