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

Subject: RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"
From: Mike Tulloch <mike -at- infoinfocus -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:26:44 -0600 (MDT)




On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Fred Ridder wrote:

>
> David's mention of linguistic drift is not relevant in this
> case because we're not talking about a compound word.

E-mail = Electronic mail.

Either email or e-mail is fine with me, but e-mail is looking more and
more archaic. There's something different about computer terms, I think,
that leads to dropping the hyphen; it may be because of the immense amount
of new words being coined from that field. That linguistic activity
pushes older terms back into standard English. Yes no, maybe so?

~Mike

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