Date:  Tue, 13 Jun 1995 22:03:21 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: new phrase



One problem, abstruse as it may, with "email" sans hyphen or cap E, is that it

looks too much like the French word for enamel, as in those beautiful Limoges

plates in the Frick (for you New Yorkers) and elsewhere. Anyway, the pattern

would presumably call for a hyphen and/or cap E. After all it's D-Day, not

dday, g-man (perhaps a better fit, since that's a description like e-mail

rather than a name like D-Day), K rations (not krations),...  I think it's

productive, too: I've seen b-day and B-day (for birthday).





Larry