Email vs. E-mail at Wired

[Mark A. Mandel]

Grant Barrett <gbarrett at MONICKELS.COM> writes:

>>>>>
2. There is a precedent for some English speakers of using the
long e sound at the beginning of a word when followed immediately
by a consonant. The hyphen is not necessary to indicate the
sound. English, eradicate, Enus, evil, Eyore. (You can give me Eyore.
It's Eyore. You *have* to accept that one.)
<<<<<

No, we bloody well don't. Milne wrote "Eeyore", with a double E, and that's
how it is now and forever, world without end, Amen.

-- Mark, who remembers reading the canon at the appropriate age, with the
Shepherd (sp?) illos, in the copies that had belonged to his parents.