[thelist] website web site

Madhu Menon webguru at vsnl.net
Sun Apr 21 15:10:00 CDT 2002


At 10:31 PM 4/21/2002, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:
>The Associated Press Style Guide mandates that it be written "Web site"
>(with a capital W).

...which is how I write it too.

>That's about as authoritative as I can think of.

But expect that stand to soften and eventually change over the next few
years. Terms that start out as two words usually tend to become one word as
more people use it. "Online", "software", "email" were all either two words
or hyphenated at one time. In time, it will become "website".

Since we're talking about style and usage, check out the Economist style
guide at: http://www.economist.com/library/StyleGuide/index.cfm

(It seems they use "Website", at least their right column does.)

Regards,

Madhu

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