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[marag]

Poll Yes, I'm avoiding editing right at this moment, even though I only have an hour before I have to go pick up Yael :( I'm a little burnt out, thanks to the events of last night's flocked post. Also, I slept poorly

Comments

[maiac]

Our corporate standard is "e-mail". The writers would prefer that it be email, but what do we know?

[marag]

I believe that all the style guides I use regularly specify "e-mail", so I've gotten to the point where I twitch at "email." But I'm sure there are style guides that say "email." I haven't checked AP, for example.

It's still a new enough word that both spellings are "correct."

[maiac]

The screens for the product I write sometimes have fields for providing an e-mail address. And sometimes fields for providing an email address. "Match the GUI" overrides "however you write it in the doc, be consistent". And makes us writers twitch.

[trexphile]

Before working at the paper, I used "email." AP dictated I use "e-mail," and, after an adjustment period during which I used both forms on LJ, I completed the transition to "e-mail" in all instances. Even in e-mail ;)

[marag]

Ah, I'm glad you knew what AP style is, because I couldn't remember :)

[hibernate]

"Email" looks really wrong to me.

[marag]

Me too. I'm usually an advocate of getting rid of unnecessary hyphens, but I like that one.

[wiliqueen]

I probably clicked the wrong one, as I do occasionally still use "e-mail." Everyone in the legal and collection industry, at least, seems to use "email" in correspondence, and since that's what I do all day, it's come to look more correct to me.

The ALQ website uses "E:mail," which gives me hives. And makes me wonder where anyone with the skills to be their webmaster could possibly have come up with it.

[marag]

"E:mail"???? ::sigh:: GPO style insists on "Web site", which gives *me* hives. I mean, "Website" or "website" or "web site" but..."Web site"? It's like the worst of both worlds.

[fantasyenabler]

I can't handle "email" as a spelling, but then I spent four years being taught that my journalism professor was God and the AP Stylebook was the Bible, so that might have something to do with it.