RE: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free

Subject: RE: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free
From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
To: 'Robert Lauriston' <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, "'techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:02:32 +0000

I'll go along it, too, one of these days.

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Subject: Re: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free

MS dropped the hyphen from "email" and stopped capitalizing "web" in the 4th edition.

It seems wrong to me not to capitalize "the Internet," since it's a proper noun, but Chicago concurs on lowercase, so I guess I'll go along with that.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:08 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> I stopped hyphenating "email" some years ago. It's handy they caught up. I also lowercase "web," but I am bucking the trend here and capitalizing "Internet."
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References:
The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free: From: Craig Cardimon
Re: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free: From: Mike Starr
RE: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free: From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free: From: Robert Lauriston

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