Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:28:57 -0400
From: Wendalyn Nichols
Subject: Re: e-mail/paper mail

I'm perfectly comfortable saying "I got fifteen e-mails in one day from
ADS-L."




Peter Richardson on 06/17/98 01:21:39 PM

Please respond to American Dialect Society

To: ADS-L [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
cc: (bcc: Wendalyn Nichols/Trade/RandomHouse)
Subject: Re: e-mail/paper mail




I take it, then, that the plural of "an e-mail" is "some e-mail" and not
"e-mails." If necessary, "two email messages," but not "two emails." Or
maybe "ease-mail?"

Peter