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Subject:Re: How do you spell it? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:24:30 -0400
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From: "Diane Evans" <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: August 01, 2003 04:20 PM
Subject: Re: How do you spell it?
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> According to GuruNet, my favorite reference program:
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> USAGE NOTE The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website
> seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself. The
> development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the
> development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve
> into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has
> recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in
> texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there has been an
> increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout.
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GuruNet and Bartleby are sharing content? The above is identical to what was
reported on Bartleby.
