Goofy question for the Q-Beaners
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- 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
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- "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...
- canuck0
Use either, just be consistent about it.
- inhaler970
Electronic Correspondence.
- stewart0
e-mail
because the dutch "email" = enamel
- SeriousFreelancing0
well
email is the norm
e-mail doesn't really work because for the majority, hyphens are only used in this format
pot-bellied pig (used as an adjective) it's not... that pig is pot-bellied
- i_monk0
electropost
- DaveO0
i use BO-RING.
- Remixt0
almost always email.
- 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.