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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Email, EMail or E-Mail?
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2001-01-03 17:25:19
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Falk Brettschneider wrote:

> Thomas Diehl wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are lots of different spellings for "email" in the KDE programs
> > (among others I also see "E-Mail" and "EMail"). Can we please agree on
> > a single spelling? I would suggest to standardize on "email" since this
> > is apparently most widely used.
> 
> "email" is English.
> "E-Mail" is German. Remember "E-Lok" for instance...

Ah no, you can't just say that "email" is the English term. It's a very
new concept, and thus there's no "standard" word. I agree with you in that
I'd also write "E-Mail" in German, but in English I would probably _talk_
about "mail" (without an [Ee]{-}). 

I'm not quite sure what would be the best version to use in writing,
though I remember Wired having a policy of using "e-mail" (since a few
months ago).

bye,
Peter

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