RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"

Subject: RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"
From: "Derek Watson" <Derek -dot- Watson -at- altitude -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:22:21 +0100


Hello,

Our group had this discussion a couple of years ago. The quote below, I cannot remember from where it was taken, helped swing the argument in favour of "email".

Don Knuth, professor Emeritus at Stanford University:

"Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to write ``non-zero'' and ``soft-ware'' instead of ``nonzero'' and ``software''; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling ``e-mail''. Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form ``email'' has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason.)"


Regards

Derek Watson

PS We're also about to starting using website for Web site and internet for Internet.


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