Email vs. E-mail at Wired

[Laurence Horn]

>Mark already pointed out the Eeyore misprint here, and I'll assume
>that Enus is supposed to be Enos--but proper names are 'allowed' to
>break the rules of regular pronunciation anyway.  But is there really
>long e sounds in eradicate?  I must protest!  I think "English" is
>cheating a bit too, since (a) I think its pronunciation is variable,
>and (b) its second sound is not an acceptable beginning sound for an
>English word, so you couldn't have e-nglish.
>
>That leaves us with evil.  And it is the human condition that we are
>always left with evil...
>
>Lynne

We're also left with "econ" (ugh).  There's also (OK, this is pretty
marginal, I admit) a poker variant called "evap" ['iy-vaep].  And,
less marginally, "emu" (the animal, not the electronically
transmitted Greek letter) and "equal".

larry