Re: "Email" vs. "E-mail"

[Steven Brown <stevenabrown -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

My company uses "email," even though it conflicts with
most style guides. We have yet to hear from any user
who's encountered the word and been confused.

That said, if I were the king, I'd use "e-mail."

Steven Brown
Technical Writer


--- ghupp -at- directcon -dot- net wrote:

> Hi list folks,
> 
> In light of this I'm wondering if there is any
> consensus developing (or 
> existing) in the technical writing world on whether
> we use the 
> spelling "email" or "e-mail".  It seems to me that
> neither one is really 
> grammatically correct, since they both stand for the
> term "electronic mail", 
> but using the full phrase "electronic mail" over and
> over again begins to 
> sound rather stilted.  



		
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