Date:  Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:46:56 -0500

From:  "H Stephen Straight (Binghamton University,

     SUNY)" <sstraigh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BINGSUNS.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU>

Subject: Re: World-Wide Web



> I note that Bruner uses the term "World Wide Web" but does not include

> it among his several problematic examples. I use "Worldwide Web" as the

> correct expansion of WWW--in part because that's what Tim Berners-Lee,

> the Web's founder, recommends, but most of all because it's the

> grammatically cleanest term. Can Bruner persuasively document his

> preference for "World Wide Web"?



The Chronicle of Higher Education has employed the phrase World-Wide Web

for some years now. This beats both of the alternatives above, IMHO,

because it is both "grammatically clean" and consistent with the

established WWW acronym.



 H Stephen Straight, Dir, Lgs Across the Curric, Binghamton U (SUNY)

 <sstraigh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu> ["sstraigh", not "sstraight"]