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Subject:Re: The Microsoft Style Guide is Online and Free From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:58:51 -0800
MS dropped the hyphen from "email" and stopped capitalizing "web" in
the 4th edition.
It seems wrong to me not to capitalize "the Internet," since it's a
proper noun, but Chicago concurs on lowercase, so I guess I'll go
along with that.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:08 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> I stopped hyphenating "email" some years ago. It's handy they caught up. I also lowercase "web," but I am bucking the trend here and capitalizing "Internet."
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