“IF IT WAS JUST ME AND A TAMBOURINE,
IT WOULD STILL BE THE FALL”
– Mark E. Smith

Wired style is simply wrong: E-mail may be e-mail, but it is not email (or ebusiness or econsulting). There aren’t many single-letter prefixes in English (a- is one, as in ahistorical).

According to my Canadian Oxford, e- can be a variant of ex- and also has the sense of “denoting anything in an electronic state.” They don’t capitalize either sense, but they write both with a hyphen, as they must be written.

If you disagree, read the following excerpt out loud and tell me if you don’t make a mistake:

In fact, the only group resistant to ebooks is consumers. Many consumers, never having actually seen or touched a dedicated ereader before, mistakenly think that the only way to read an ebook is on your computer or cell phone.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.06.29 14:56. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/06/29/e/

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