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Subject:RE: How do you spell it? From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"'Domaschuk, Rob'" <Robd -at- datalogics -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:30:28 -0400
I did a search on Google. "Website" got 71 million hits and "web site" got
7.8 million. Seems that "website" is the correct one by a ratio of about
10:1
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
"If you're afraid to be second-guessed, you better not make any decisions."
--Hal Sutton, America's 2004 Ryder Cup Captain
> First, being a Friday afternoon I was tempted to troll for flames by
> exclaiming that it absolutely MUST be spelled "Web site" and
> any deviation
> from that simply isn't correct, rendering any contrarian positions as
> invalid and feeble-minded. Also you would never make it into
> a certification
> course (the best of which is____) if you spelled it in any other way.
>