[thelist] RE: website web site

Clive R Sweeney clive at designshift.com
Sun Apr 21 13:47:01 CDT 2002


On the issue of which is correct - "Web site", "web site", "website",
etc. I tried Dictionary.com and found "The American Heritage Dictionary"
definition followed by the following:

Usage Note: The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to
website seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself.
The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the
development of other technological expressions which have tended to
evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email
has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail,
especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly,
there has been an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage,
online, and printout.


Clive R Sweeney
Email	clive at designshift.com





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