Date:  Wed, 14 Jun 1995 08:37:40 -0500

From:  Shana Walton <swalton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WHALE.ST.USM.EDU>

Subject: Re: new phrase



>

> 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),



Actually, according to _Chicago_, it's D day, not D-Day or D Day (see sec.

7.75) and Webster's Collegiate agrees. AP uses D-Day, however.



personally, I use email. New York Times has deemed it E-mail. go figure.



K rations (not krations),...  I think it's

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





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Shana Walton

Mississippi Oral History Program

University of Southern Mississippi

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