AP changes "e-mail" to "email"

This is going to take a lot of repetition for me to remember.

http://mashable.com/2011/03/18/ap-stylebook-email/

 

Canadian Press changed this a year or two ago. Not that hard of a switch.

 

Who the hell do they think they are?!

 

I think all the ink saved on the hyphens could turn the tide.

 

But they wimped out. It's still e-commerce, e-business, etc. (I don't really know that they wimped out, just saying).

They announced this today at the ACE convention in Phoenix, by the way.

 

Was that this week? Oops. I'm supposed to be signing autographs.

 

Logically, I still think the hyphen makes sense, considering how the word originated and how it's pronounced, but whatever.

At least I won't have to worry about force returning the "e-" when it's at the end of the line, as is our policy at my paper.

 

If it's all the same to the bozos at the AP, we'll keep it e-mail.

For one, if the word breaks, it's going to look like hell as em-ail.

Just another change for the sake of change, without having any logic behind it, for the AP.

They would better serve us by going back to "said" instead of the stupid "says" in their stories, especially, since that's the only part of the stories where they use present tense.

 

Must have been a dramatic moment.

 

Smartphone now at one word, also. Guess they decided to discuss all the "techie" issues while they were together.

 

Also, all children under 16 years old....are now 16 years old.