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--- Forwarded mail from Katherine Graden <kgraden -at- MAIL -dot- DANCRIS -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:54:45 -0700
Reply-To: Katherine Graden <kgraden -at- MAIL -dot- DANCRIS -dot- COM>
From: Katherine Graden <kgraden -at- MAIL -dot- DANCRIS -dot- COM>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: RFC1983 (Was E-mail or e-mail)
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Wait a minute! Who made up the rule that you can use a word construction
like e-mail only if the object being discussed is shaped like the preceding
letter (e)? Bev says the only exception she knows of is X-ray. How about
some others: G-spot, C-note, G-man, A-list? None of these items are
shaped like the preceding letter.
Kathy Graden
(kgraden -at- mail -dot- dancris -dot- com)
At 11:57 AM 4/30/97 -0700, Parks, Beverly wrote:
>>Katherine Graden[SMTP:kgraden -at- MAIL -dot- DANCRIS -dot- COM] wrote:
>>>> I prefer e-mail over email as an abbreviation for "electronic mail."
>>>>After
>all, do we say xray or x-ray? Tshirt or t-shirt? <<
>
>T-shirt, U-joint, U-turn, A-frame, O-ring, E-mail, S-curve. Can anybody
>tell me which of these words doesn't belong? If you answered E-mail (or
>e-mail), you're right! Why? Because the thing being talked about (mail)
>isn't shaped like the preceding letter (E). X-ray, I admit, is an
>exception. ...
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I don't buy the shape bit either. It's just a coincidence.
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(If you can't convince them, outwit them.)
Theodora Mazza (tmazz -at- adams -dot- com)
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