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Subject:RE: website or Web Site? From:"Deborah Snavely" <dsnavely -at- Aurigin -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:48:10 -0800
> Clearly, this is a compound. But what is the correct form: website or
Web
> Site? People are using them both, but I am not sure what is the
correct
> usage in the world of professional writers.
We use "Web site". The term "World Wide Web" is spelled and capitalized
that way by the W3 specifying organization. Therefore Web requires a
capital letter, as a shortened form of the term, and to distinguish it
from all the meanings of the lower-case dictionary word "web". But a
site is a site is a site, and just because the type of site is a Web
site doesn't mean one capitalizes the generic noun, and more than one
capitalizes the word automobile when writing about a Ford automobile.
Deborah Snavely
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