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Bev Parks wrote:
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>I don't understand the resistance to omitting the hyphen. Do those who
>insist on the hyphen also write inter-net and mo-dem?
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>T. Mazza replied:
>I like e-mail, and look at it as an abbrev. of electronic mail.
>
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I'm glad you look at it that way, because that's exactly what it is.
Just as internet is an abbreviation for interconnected network and modem
is an abbreviation for modulator-demodulator.
Bev Parks
parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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