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To: Colonel_Flagg; steve86

heh

Actually, I think that either “e-mail” or “email” is considered proper spelling. Hyphenated words typically are un-hyphenated after long use and familiarity. For instance, the word “tomorrow” was once spelled “to-morrow”.


70 posted on 02/09/2011 11:03:35 AM PST by Fletcher J
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To: Fletcher J

Technically, yes. However, the term “e-mail” is always correct, since it modifies the word ‘mail’ by designating its type, in this case ‘electronic’.

When I see people use “email”, and I see them in person, I’ll tell them I got their ‘email’ in one phrase. They then ask why I’m mispronouncing the word, and I teach them about modifiers.

As another example, in the 1940s, troops listened to music on ‘V-discs’. Today, I guess they’d be ‘vdiscs’.

I find that sad.


73 posted on 02/09/2011 12:39:11 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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