Let's settle this once and for all: sim racing or simracing

[Bram Hengeveld]

For as long as I can remember we have never decided on how to spell our fine hobby: sim racing or simracing.

Let me know please what your vote looks like

 

[trichens]

It's GOT to be Sim Racing hasn't it?
The online Cambridge Dictionary reckons that simracing isn't a word, but lists both sim and racing as separate words.
I rest my case, m'lud!

EDIT 1 : Oooo... what about "sim-racing"?
EDIT 2 : and as for "Let's settle this once and for all"... I think you might be on the wrong forum for that

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Oooo... what about "sim-racing"?

Forgot about that one

 

[Michael Krone]

Never liked the red squiggly line google likes to put under "simracing" so "sim racing" it is!

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

In Norwegian, splitting words is a big no-no.
Like "Pineapplerings". That is rings of pineapple. While Pineapple Rings is a Pineapple that uses a phone to call (ring) you.
Our word for hospital can be translated to "sick house". However, writing sick house, means that the house is sick, while sickhouse(sykehus) is hospital.
Bits of Tuna, or "Tuna Bites" would mean Tuna that bites you, Tunabites however would be bits of Tuna.
And so on.

To unlearn this when writing English is kinda hard. So for me, regardless of it being right or left wrong, I am way more likely to write it as simracing rather than sim racing.

 

[Fat-Alfie]

Since the software we all use is called a Racing Simulator, or Racing Sim for short, it makes sense to me to describe what we do as Sim Racing (or Simulated Racing). They are two separate words, with one abbreviated.

Without the abbreviation, you wouldn't say 'Simulatedracing', so why say 'simracing'?

I vote for Sim Racing

p.s. Google search for simracing vs sim racing... 11 million results vs 75 million

 

[Ole Marius Myrvold]

p.s. Google search for simracing vs sim racing... 11 million results vs 75 million

What I once was told. Billions of flies loves , doesn't mean it is good

The one who told me that, always liked to nitpick and never ever accepted to "lose" a discussion

 

[Michael Krone]

The one who told me that, always liked to nitpick and never ever accepted to "lose" a discussion

Do we know each other?

 

[Julian Strasser]

I vote for sim racing.

Even though German is like Norwegian in that regard @Ole Marius Myrvold
But in English, word combination is the big nono