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On 11/01/00 3:21 PM, Michele Davis (michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com) wrote:
>Well, besides the fact that it looks stupid, and its now common vernacular to
>say ecommerce, and email, nothing I guess.
Quite a sweeping comment considering how wrong it is. I'll repeat what I
said earlier: it's irrelevant, as long as *your own* usage is consistent.
No point in arguing a matter of preference; I'll just point you to the
Chicago Manual of Style's website where they say, basically, to use
either a hyphen or not, as long as your consistent.
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