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Subject:Re: Web site or website From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:49:50 -0800 (PST)
In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, mwells -at- valadeo -dot- com (Mandy Wells) writes:
>
>My CEO recently rationalized our corporate change from "Web site" to "web
>site"--over my objections that it was grammatically and morally wrong (and
>I'd have to change all of my docs)--and trumped my objections by saying that
>William Safire of the New York Times had written in one of his columns that
>lower-case was the way to go.
>
Sorry, can't find the Safire column. But if you want a
compromise position, our decision here was to capitalize
it when we were talking about sites on the World Wide Web
("See the Raycomm Web site..."), but to lowercase it when
we were talking generally about the concept ("To design an
attractive web site...")
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