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Subject:(Fwd) Re: What is the plural of... From:Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- LYNX -dot- DAC -dot- NEU -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 17 Jul 1997 02:06:38 +0000
> >From the Stumpers List...
>
> What is the plural of email. Emails?
>
> Trick question...
>
I prefer "an e-mail" for a single piece of mail, and "e-mail" for an
indeterminate number, but I frequently see "e-mails" to denote the
latter. I don't particularly like it, but if more people use it than
my own preferred construction, I will have little to say about it.
I think "emails" looks really weird! 8-)
Bonnie Granat
bgranat -at- lynx -dot- dac -dot- neu -dot- edu
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