#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.
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