RE: capitalization of 'web'

Subject: RE: capitalization of 'web'
From: "James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:20:20 -0800

>>World Wide Web is a proper noun. There's only one. It takes a cap.
>
>The usage of "web" these days is largely like "sky". You're right;
>there is only one, and everybody knows what you mean by the term.

Hmmm...I was going to write a reply worthy of an award until I began to
wonder...

What do you do with the word "website" ("web-site", etc.). This is actually
a rhetorical question. I just wanted to see how certain people here fit
that word into their arguments.

- Jim
Technical Writer
Advocate of the Devil



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