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Subject:Re: e-verything (was Web site or website) From:"ROGERS, MARTHA (CONTRACTOR)" <MARTHA -dot- ROGERS -at- DFAS -dot- MIL> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:37:05 -0600
C. Crowley wrote:
<snip>
Calling something a Web site rather than a website reminds me of these old
usages:
'phone because it's short for telephone. However, they
did not feel obliged to write auto'
<snip>
You mean like cell' for cellular phone?
We include help desk phone numbers in our user manuals. For the longest time, Word would offer to change phone to telephone during a spelling/grammar check.
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