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> E-liza,
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> The MS style manual says to avoid coining a new e-word unless you're certain your users will understand the coined word. The manual deems "e-mail" and "e-form" acceptable. In the examples, each e-word takes a hyphen.
>
> Martha
> martha -dot- rogers -at- dfas -dot- mil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Azileretsis Y
> Is a hyphen used in ewords? For example, is it
> e-commerce or ecommerce? ebusiness or e-business?
> e-store or estore? Also, are people just adding e to
> everything these days? E-pets, e-life, e-money, etc.