Re: spelling conventions: opinions welcomed!

 
From: "Bruce Kallick" <curmudgeon@PROTECTED>
Date: July 31st 2005

Following is a list of alternate spellings The italicized ones are "correct" according to Wikipedia &/or Wiktionary Unless there's disagreement or discussion to be had, I'll be using the first (bolded) one in each list so if you dislike any of those, now's the time to say so!

e-mail, email

begin excerpt A note on email versus e-mail

Newly coined nonce words are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used For example, people used to write "non-zero" and "soft-ware" instead of "nonzero" and "software"; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words Thus it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling "e-mail" Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form "email" has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard (Of course, "email" has been a familiar word in France much longer than in England -- but for an entirely different reason )

            -- Donald E
 Knuth

end excerpt

from http://www-cs-faculty stanford edu/~knuth/email html

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