Email vs. E-mail at Wired

[Nancy Elliott]

I kind of like the idea of "eemail." Adds drama.

(And I really liked Lynn's wonderful line about evil.)

Nancy Elliott

> From: Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
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> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:30:12 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Email vs. E-mail at Wired
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> 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.
>
>