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Re: Dumb question: is it "email", "Email", "e-mail", or "E-mail"
Subject:Re: Dumb question: is it "email", "Email", "e-mail", or "E-mail" From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:01:58 -0600
The one I usually see these days is "emails." Even thought I know the
natural order of things is for hyphenated words to lose their hyphens
after awhile, this is one case where I hated to see it happen, because
without the hyphen, I keep wanting to pronounce it "em-ale."
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