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"I called email “an abomination.” That was 15 years ago, but I’m still surprised anyone ever thought to write the word that way. While it’s true that commonly
by breakingcups 11y ago
"I called email “an abomination.” That was 15 years ago, but I’m still surprised anyone ever thought to write the word that way.
While it’s true that commonly used two-word or hyphenated compounds often solidify into single words over time, that had never before happened with a compound based on a single letter. We had T-shirts and X-rays for a long time before electronic mail showed up, but we still aren’t writing about tshirts and xrays."
Maybe that's because Both T and X are consonants and E isn't?
- kwhitefoot 11y ago> we still aren’t writing about tshirts and xrays. You and I might not be but a lot of other people are. Google returns 54M hits for x-rays and 28M for xrays. The status of T-shirts is a bit clearer 340M versus 18M. And of course I haven't taken into account how Google handles word variants.
- cafard 11y agoOr because the T represents a shape, as does the I in I-beam?