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>I used to prefer "email," but I've realized recently
>that it adds another oddity to the phonetics of
>English, which is odd enough as it is.
Scanning quickly through the "ema" words in my 10th Collegiate, I find:
emaciate, emancipate, emarginate, emasculate, which start about like email
when I pronounce them. The exception in that group is emanate.
Further down the alphabet you'll find emotion and emu. I'm not going to do a
lengthy study of this, but to my mind the pronunciation argument against
email is pretty weak. ...RM
