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Re: Dumb question: is it "email", "Email", "e-mail", or "E-mail"
Subject:Re: Dumb question: is it "email", "Email", "e-mail", or "E-mail" From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:27:24 +1100
Deborah Hemstreet wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My brain is befuddled by change. Could someone kindly advise the correct
> current practice for referring to Email (email, E-mail, e-mail)... I see
> it typed every which way...
>
We used to include the hyphen but finally gave up
on it a few years ago.
>
> Is there a rule for this kind of thing? For example, I've seen
> discussion over Internet vs internet, and online Help vs online help....
>
Internet vs internet doesn't actually fall into
this category for us, as we always capitalize
the names of standards.
-- Janice
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