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

Subject: RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"
From: Joyce Fetterman <JoyceF -at- gtsoftware -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:40:06 -0400


Mike Tulloch wrote:
<< 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?>>


But do you also drop the hyphen in ecommerce and ebusiness?

I retain the hyphens for clarity and consistency across all "e" terms, but
of course it's just a style preference.

Joyce

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