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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Email, EMail or E-Mail?
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-01-03 17:57:22
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According to dictionary.com:

e-mail or e·mail also E-mail (ml)
n. 

A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer
network, as between personal computers. 
A message or messages sent or received by such a system. 

tr.v. e-mailed, e-mail·ing, e-mails 
To send (a message) by such a system

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=email

Rich.

Peter Putzer wrote:
> 
> 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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