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Is it 'E-mail' or 'email', or 'Internet' or 'internet'?

• sidpatil 6y ago
  > Is it 'E-mail' or 'email' https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html > or 'Internet' or 'internet'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet
• OJFord 6y ago
  I don't care, I think that would be much more pedantic than drawing a distinction between [wW]i-?[fF]i and [iI]nternet access. (Other than for consistency: a publisher should have a style guide entry on it, but it doesn't bother me what they choose.)
  • ghaff 6y ago
    Both those examples are cases of what often tends to happen with new terms. They're capitalized and often hyphenated (rather than making up a new word). But over time, you end up with something like "Open Source Big Data products delivered over the Internet" which gets pretty silly or you have hyphens all over the place which look pretty ugly. Where I work, our style is to generally eliminate both whenever possible. I guess WiFi is properly Wi-Fi but hardly anyone uses that these days.
    • code_duck 6y ago
      I don't think anyone is trying to draw a distinction about how the term Wi-Fi is stylized. (My own usage is what Google decides to use for voice dictation). The question being posed is whether we use 'Wi-Fi' as a term meaning internet access.
    • OJFord 6y ago
      And like email and internet, I'm ambivalent (as long as in the case of a publisher there's internal consistency) - this is about the meaning of wifi/WiFi/Wi-Fi, whether it's WLAN or WAN.