Re: e-mail??????

["Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

Most of the examples that people use to justify a capital E in email
have reasons for being capitalized that simply do not apply to
"electronic".

A T-shirt is shaped like a T, not like a t.
An A-frame is shaped like an A, not like an a.
The elemental symbol for hydrogen is H, not h (H-bomb).

Bev Parks
parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
http://www.bayside.net/users/cbsites/techwr-l/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wilcox [SMTP:Clwilcox -at- MICRON -dot- COM]
>
> I'll put  my two cents in on this one, because it's an issue we've
> questioned recently.   The NY Times (not that it's a definitive
> authority) spells it E-mail in keeping with words that predate E-mail,
> such as T-shirt, H-bomb, and A-frame, and capitalizes it when it
> occurs.
>  If you consider it in that context, it makes sense to capitalize and
> hyphenate it, IMHO.
>
>