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Subject:RE: How do you spell it? From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:<TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:26:13 -0400
Following up on my earlier post, I wonder what the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS has as the correct form.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: How do you spell it?
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.
>
