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The Plural of E-Mail
- zrail 17y agoAt one point someone at work who should have known better wrote "eMail packets" so that's what we use. "you have an incoming eMail packet", "check your eMail packets", etc.
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- joubert 17y agoemails works because we use "email" to refer to a single email message. Contrast to use of mail, which never refers to one piece of mail.
- ez77 17y agoIn any event, it's time to move from e-mails to emails.
- cduan 17y agoKnuth agrees with you (see the bottom of the page): http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
- patio11 17y agoThere is a related debate in Japanese as to whether emails are events, which means you count them one way, or communications, in which case you count them the other way. They haven't been letters for most people in a decade, which is good, because that means you count them a third way. My ex-boss, however, maintains that they're "fundamentally equivalent to paper", so you count them a forth way.
- lkozma 17y agoThis is straight out of Borges' "emporium": http://www.multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html http://www.multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoA single item of mail is a letter (or a postcard, etc.), which can be pluralized. A single item of email, on the other hand, is an email, which can also be pluralized.
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