Date:  Wed, 14 Jun 1995 19:20:11 GMT

From:  Barnhart <Lexik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HIGHLANDS.COM>

Subject: email, e-mail, E mail, etc.



In The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 7.4 and 8.1) where these and

related terms are entered there is evidence provided of a wide variety of

spellings, e.g.: e-mail, e mail, Email, EMAIL, E-mail, E-Mail, Email, and

email. On the basis of frequency we chose e-mail as the initial listing.

Dictionaries generally have entered this term as E-mail. "Our records

suggest that by 1984 the preferred form had become e-mail." This applies

both to the noun and verb uses.



Barnhart[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Highlands.com