The New York Times only just dropped the hyphen: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/23/5022332/the-new-york-times-embraces-email-over-e-mail-in-updated-style http

The New York Times only just dropped the hyphen: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/23/5022332/the-new-york-times-embraces-email-over-e-mail-in-updated-style http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/23/5022332/the-new-york-time... Worse (imo) was their long-time refusal to use the term "weblog" for such sites even though the inventors of the word, years before there were any articles about them, had always spelled it as one word, leading to such awkward copy as "a Web log, or 'blog'". The willingness to accept one neologism at face value ("blog") but not its ancestor ("weblog") reveals an unhealthy tendency to favor false logic ("we call it the World Wide Web, so it must be 'Web log'") over the actual history and usage of a word. Style guides should be about improving clarity, but changing the capitalization and adding a space to a new word is only going to cause confusion. It hardly matters now that the original variant "weblog" is basically gone from actual usage, but I think it's a useful glimpse into the editors' mindset.