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Subject:AW: Antwort: web site or website; e-mail or email From:"Reng, Winfried" <winfried -dot- reng -at- msi-muenchen -dot- de> To:"'kerstin -dot- molthagen -at- etas -dot- de'" <kerstin -dot- molthagen -at- etas -dot- de>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 May 2000 13:52:13 +0200
Hi,
> >I notice more and more newspapers talk about websites (one
> word) and email
> >(no hyphen). How do most tech writers spell these words?
>
> Instinctively, I'd use "website" (presumably according to the German
> "Webseite") and "e-mail". IMHO, the hyphen is necessary to
Don´t get confused.
Web site: all files/pages of a company (or private) URL.
In German there isn´t a corresponding translation.
Best would be Web-Site/Website or Web-Auftritt.
Web page: a single HTML file. German: Web-Seite.
In German these words should be spelled with hyphen
as they aren´t regular German words.
