From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 4:30: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.135.138.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADFC37B414 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 04:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 17A7pz-00006h-00 (Debian); Tue, 21 May 2002 12:29:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:29:55 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: email vs. e-mail, was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <20020521122955.A31528@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:57AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:57AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 7:57 PM -0700 2002/05/20, David O'Brien wrote: > > >> Right after we settle the "e-mail" vs. "email" debate. ;-) > > > > Knuth already did -- http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html > > I consider Knuth to be authoritative on matters relating to > computer science. I do not consider him to be authoritative on > matters relating to the use of the English language. When this use > is recognized and recommended by the Oxford English Dictionary, I > might consider it -- but not before. I have an Oxford Encyclopaedic Dictionary from 1991 that lists email as the primary usage. I expect the same to be true for the full dictionary, but I don't have convenient access to a copy. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHEASTERLY 5 TO 7, OCCASIONALLY GALE 8. RAIN THEN SQUALLY SHOWERS. GOOD OCCASIONALLY MODERATE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message