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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:"Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Jerry Kindall" <j -dot- kindall -at- tecplot -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:25:40 -0500
I like the idea of referring to snail mail as "post". After all, it does
need to go through the "post" office.
Makes sense to me.
Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, Ontario
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Jerry Kindall <j -dot- kindall -at- tecplot -dot- com> wrote:
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> What we really need is a good word for non-electronic mail. I suggest
> we Americans adopt the British "post." ("Any post, perchance, Gromit?")
> To my ears, although probably not to British ones, this makes physical
> mail sound appropriately quaint.
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