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IP: Re: Bush to Gore
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:39:25 -0500
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:39:16 -0800 From: Mark Boolootian <booloo () cats ucsc edu> To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Re: IP: Bush to Gore Reply-To: booloo () cats ucsc edu> "Thank you for your e-mail. This Internet > of yours is a wonderful invention."His hyphenation of the word email is quaint. My guess is Bush doesn't spend much time on the net. Don Knuth has had a short paragraph on this subject on one of his pages for quite some time: 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.)
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