On 2004-02-25, Clover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > throwing some stone at the still pond > > http://www.theslot.com/ > > finally, a respectable editor agrees with me. Time to change all "web > site" to "Web site" on Help and m.o site?
keep your stones to yourself. ;P http://www.googlefight.com/ says "website" beats "web site" by 141m to 15m. "e-mail" scores just 22m, while "email" gets 271m. So usage on the web clearly favours the shortened forms. The dictionaries I just checked acknowledge the existance of the shortened versions. That article says "Established publications edited by grown-ups" are holding on to the original terms - mozilla's website is not an established publication (the grown-ups part is probably arguable ;) So I think we're fine with either. A more serious point would be consistency - there should really be a consistent usage across the mozilla.org site, but currently we have a mix of the two (e-mail occurs 4000 times vs email 3400 times according to google). But that's not a significant issue compared to many of the problems with the site :) -- Michael _______________________________________________ mozilla-documentation mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-documentation
