Regarding Email...

[arwalden]

Is it okay to type "email" as one word? Or must we still include the hyphen and type it as "e-mail"?

How do you write it? Should the E be capitalized if it's "E-mail"?

-- Allen

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. "spam"

[arwalden]

5. LOL...

You make a good point... but I hardly think it would be appropriate for me to write to someone: "Please let me know if you have any other questions, just spam me at [e-mail], thanks."

[terrya]

2. It's email.

When email first came out, it was e-mail...because of the novelty of it. To differentiate electronic mail from regular snail mail.

But everyone surely knows what email means now. It's ok to use email.

[arwalden]

4. Thanks, Terry. --- I remember...

... how odd it looked when I would see my grandmother write the word "today" as "to-day". And I recall when cooperate was a hyphenated word, "co-operate". (Frankly... I think that when it's written without the hyphen, it looks like it should be pronounced as COOPER-ate.)

-- Allen

[On the Road]

3. The Spelling of Compound Words Usually Evolves

In some cases, they start out as two separate words. The next step is hypenation. The final step is a single unhyphenated word ("email").