E-mail or Email?

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:02

I've always written "e-mail address", "e-mail" or "e-mail me".

Many people don't use the hyphens, which to me just screams wrong but I often get into debates with clients about it.

WHAT'S RIGHT?

krazywookie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:03

Lemon French fancies

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:03

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:06

E-mail is probably more accurate but I think the hyphen has disappeared over the past twenty years or so.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:06

Electronic mail, or email for short. Obviously.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:06

I just ask people to inbox me about problems with their machines

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6613

eMail. The case is important.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Bloody camels.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:10

Kern wrote:

E-mail is probably more accurate

I can't find any evidence to support this claim.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Without the hyphen it's ehmail. That's silly

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:11

I used to write it with a hyphen, now I don't.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:12

Not to be confused with 'Emil and the Detective', obviously.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Just ping me on my ldap.

"E-mail" used to be favoured by a number of the more formal style guides for writing, including the NYT, but I think they have all now moved over to the more common "email." Citation: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/23/5022 ... ated-style

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:15

Email. And Internet (with a capital I).

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:15

Guardian style guide gives 'email' .
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-ob ... le-guide-e

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4357

Grim... wrote:

Email. And Internet (with a capital I).

If we're dropping hyphens, I think it's high time Grim... dropped his ellipsis.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12337

Grim... wrote:

Email. And Internet (with a capital I).

The Associated press has moved away from Internet:
http://www.poynter.org/2016/ap-style-ch ... re/404664/

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:19

I agree with 'email', never used 'E-mail'

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Grim... wrote:

And Internet (with a capital I).

Yeah, as noted above, this is now going away. The world is moving to a small 'i'.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:20

Grim... wrote:

Email. And Internet (with a capital I).

Ok grandad

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Email Healey.

Edit. Heskey, not Healey. Stupid phone

Jem · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 15:52

I think I've mostly moved over to email, but only because when I try to type e-mail it always comes out e-amil the first time.

It's still Internet though.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Grim... wrote:

And Internet (with a capital I).

Yeah, as noted above, this is now going away. The world is moving to a small 'i'.

Bloody Apple.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Just ping me on my ldap.

I'm normally pretty sanguine about tech word misusage, but (as I believe I've mentioned), that one specifically turns me into a boiling lake of pissfury. It's just so unbearably nonsensical.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 17:50

Cras wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Just ping me on my ldap.

I'm normally pretty sanguine about tech word misusage, but (as I believe I've mentioned), that one specifically turns me into a boiling lake of pissfury. It's just so unbearably nonsensical.

Isn't ldap a protocol used in AD? How is this even a thing people say?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

It's not people, it's people at Google. But it's no less infuriating for that.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2016 19:57

Cras wrote:

It's not people, it's people at Google. But it's no less infuriating for that.

Even worse then

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Cras wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Just ping me on my ldap.

I'm normally pretty sanguine about tech word misusage, but (as I believe I've mentioned), that one specifically turns me into a boiling lake of pissfury. It's just so unbearably nonsensical.

This is specifically why I mentioned it.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

I figured it probably was

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