RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"

Subject: RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:44:49 -0400



Can you give an example?
A-team? No.
B-movie? No.
G-man? No.
X-ray? No.
P-type? No.
N-type? No.

>
> I personally prefer the spelling with the hyphen, because it clarifies
> how the word is to be pronounced, but my observation is that the
> spelling without the hyphen seems to be the preferred one/ And this
> would be in line with normal linguistic drift. Word that start out as
> hyphenated tend to involve into compounds words with no hyphen.
>

Bonnie Granat | www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US



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References:
RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail": From: Downing, David

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