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From: "Bob Hegerich" <>
Subject: Re: [NS-L] E-mails
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:13:14 -0400
References: <002501c1f47e$65d689e0$10348a18@accesscable.net> <003401c1f4eb$f0ba07e0$116ff5d1@default>


Hi All:

At the risk of prolonging this thread, here is my two cents worth.

Electronic mail or "e-mail" is a service, akin to snail mail, that delivers
notes/messages, which is what you actually read. You cannot read a service.
I would guess that at least 99 and 44/100ths percent of us are provided
e-mail service only via the Internet. Stated differently, for almost all of
us, there is only one e-mail service. Therefore, e-mail is a noun that is
singular, and the term e-mails is inappropriate.

Don't you wish you hadn't started this. :-)

-----Bob H-----

----- Original Message -----
From: "Col. John B. Devoe" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [NS-L] E-mails


> Ric is correct....(one could also create the form [for plurals] "es- mail"
a
> pattern suggested by "attorneys general). I will stick with "e-mails" I
> believe.
> Cheers, John (NH-USA, all outgoing e-mails screened via NAV)
> An Acadian Web Page: http://pages.prodigy.net/gydvo/index.htm
> Our ancestors: "Records=identity + history=understanding" JBD
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Noble" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [NS-L] E-mails
>
>
> > Just a quick comment.
> >
> > If I got two letters in the mail. I would say I got two pieces of mail.
> > Not that I got two mails.
> >
> > But if I received two e-mails, I would say I received two e-mails, not
two
> > pieces of e-mail.
> >
> > Correct English?? I think in this case usage, will determine.
> >
> > Ric
> >
>
>
>
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