#4141 - Email vs E-mail
| Identifier | #4141 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Email vs E-mail |
| Status | Open |
| Handling member | Deleted |
| Addon | core |
| Description | We use 'E-mail', not 'Email'.
However: - Email is now the preferred term for IETF RFCs - Email is preferred on Wikipedia - Thunderbird says Email, Outlook says Email, and probably all other popular e-mail clients - Most style guides for mainstream publications recommend Email, including Associated Press - Searching for "E-mail" has dropped off a lot in recent years https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=email,e-mail - My wife recently told me she never heard of it being spelled 'E-mail' E-mail is still preferred by more of the formal publications, is more common in edited writing (see corpus data @ https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925/email-or-e-mail), and there's good argument that it makes for consistency ('e-commerce' etc), and email it is a Dutch word with a different meaning. History is trending toward email (see graphs on https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1925/email-or-e-mail). Perhaps we shouldn't be so stuffy and just switch to where things have been headed for a long time now. |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Funded? | No |
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https://www.grammarly.com/blog/spelling-e-mail-email/
https://magenticians.com/ecommerce-or-e-commerce-which-is-it/