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Subject:Re: website or Web Site? From:"Turner, Will" <Will_Turner -at- Bayptin -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:11:52 -0800
"Web site" is the logical contraction of "World Wide Web site", but, because
"website" is easier to write and manage, I have seized on the few published
instances that I have seen of it to justify using it in my docs. I think of
it as another coined term, like "electronic mail" > "e-mail" and "e-docs" >
"email" (and soon "edocs"?), that is the result of simplification of a
compound noun through common usage. I encourage you all to get on my
bandwagon (was "band wagon") so we can simplify our work.
--Will Turner
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