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[Naked Snake]

Which is the most "proper" way of writing it? When I'm being informal I always write "email", but what if you're writing something serious/official/important?

 

[RevenantKioku]

My dictionary says e-mail.
And I'd assume the capitalization deals with standard rules in English.

 

[fennec fox]

Every magazine I've worked for used email.

If you wanted to sound serious and important I suppose you could use "Electronic mail" :lol

 

[beerbelly]

what about e-mail or e-Mail?

 

[Ruzbeh]

It's e-mail. The E can be a capital when 'e-mail' is the first word of the sentence, like all words.

/thread

 

[Eminem]

email is where it's at

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Magical interweb message fairies.

 

[iapetus]

Gmail.

Answers.com describes 'email' as being more common, but chooses to use 'e-mail' itself.

 

[FnordChan]

The OED lists email, with e-mail as an alternate spelling. It also has a seperate entry for e-mail as a verb, which is a bit odd. At any rate, it looks like there isn't really a standardized spelling, so pick email or e-mail depending on whether or not you feel like busting out the hyphen.

Fnord-Chan

 

[Squirrel Killer]

According to Donald Knuth, "Newly coined nonce words of English 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''." Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Oh, and just in case this thread derails in this particular direction, it's "web site."

 

[Exis]

I use Email, but sometime email.

-Exis

 

[Lord Error]

e-mail is the business/official way to write it. email is more of a casual way. I guess you can choose accordingly.

I remember that Wired magazine used to write email for years, but then they decided to become a bit more uptight and started writing e-mail.

 

[demon]

EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEeEEEEeEeEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeEeEeEeEEE-male

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

email

 

[pnjtony]

I use email but I suppose the proper way would be E-mail

[sarcasm]or if you're a mac user iMail[/sarcasm]

 

[Tenacious-V]

I dunno about proper, but I know that everyone basically just uses email.

 

[Acrylamid]

I know that it's not the correct spelling (neither in English nor in German nor in any other language afaik), but I prefer "eMail" as it reminds me of eBay and eMule and just looks cool.

 

[Duality]

http://webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/InternetGrammar.asp

Here's some info. It says E-mail when it's a noun or e-mail as a verb.

 

[Exclamation-One]

"What the hell is e-mail?"