Goofy question for the Q-Beaners
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I often get hung up on punctuation, grammar, spelling, and correctness. So tell me the mass consensus here (and yes, I'm interested in what the different protocols are worldwide):
Do you use:
A) email
or
B) e-mail
Thanks. Sort of ridiculous, I know, but I will lie awake at night stressing about which to use.
- brandelec0
email
- jaylarson0
E-Mail™
- abettertomorrow0
e-mail was the original, and listed in the dictionary. But either is acceptable.
Now move on with your life.
- brandelec0
just emailed you the answer too
- georgesIII0
email
- benfal990
Courriel
- benfal990
Post in french is courrier
Electronic in french is électroniqueE-Mail = electronic mail
Courriel = Courrier électronique:D
- maquito0
E-mail.
- formula0
Your answers are exactly as I think. Seems that e-mail is the actual proper way but that it's obsolete now to "email". I like the simplicity of "email" better.
Just wanted to verify that either are ok by today's standards.
- epic_rim0
I would say that "email" would be an abbreviation for electronicmail, which is not a word, and "e-mail" would be an abbreviation for electronic-mail, another form you most likely wouldn't use, so I say go with "e mail", which no one uses and will make you look hip.
"I sent him an e mail about that Bianchi"
- actually, not bad. i have not seen this "e mail" before and sometimes i do tel numbers that way: 555 321 4321, etc.formula
- pressplay0
I tend to use E-Mail, cause in Germany Email also means enamel
- bjladams0
e-mail |ˈē ˌmāl| (also email)
noun
messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network : reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning | [as adj. ] e-mail messages.
• the system of sending messages by such electronic means : a contract communicated by e-mail.
• ( an e-mail) a message sent by e-mail : I got three e-mails from my mother today.
verb [ trans. ]
send an e-mail to (someone) : you can e-mail me at my normal address.
• send (a message) by e-mail : employees can e-mail the results back.
DERIVATIVES
e-mailer noun
ORIGIN late 20th cent.: abbreviation of electronic mail .
- i_monk0
eMail for your eDevice
- abettertomorrow0
eml
- not bad, not bad. as a side note, "fax" always drove me crazy. No "X" in the word. I like eml.formula
- autoflavour0
i use carrier pigeon, email is so passé
- hektor9110
you could just say imail...
- abettertomorrow0
e
- "I e'd you the other day"abettertomorrow
- your stock is rising abettertomorrow, so far both your suggestions are dead onformula
- Hombre_Lobo0
email.
you would probably spent about a week pressing the '-' button over the course of your life.
that time could be spent better satisfying set's sexual needs (yeh i know about you two). lifes too short!
- ItalianStallion0
"e-mail", just because I hate auto-correction undeline...