Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Webmail & Website
English answer:
webmail & website
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Fuad Yahya
Feb 20, 2003 15:56
21 yrs ago
English term
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Webmail & Website vs. webmail & website
English
Tech/Engineering
Computers: Systems, Networks
Internet
Shal these words be capitalised? And what about the cases when they are used as noun modifiers (e.g. Webmail address, Website URL)?
Responses
| 5 +16 | no |
Fuad Yahya
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| 3 | Yes --- maybe! |
Tony M
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Change log
Dec 29, 2005 00:05: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering" , "Field (specific)" from "Linguistics" to "Computers: Systems, Networks" , "Field (write-in)" from "grammar" to "Internet"
Responses
+16
1 min
Selected
no
They are not proprietary names, even as modifiers.
Fuad
Fuad
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks! But there're so many examples of these words being capitalizied."
16 mins
Yes --- maybe!
Personally, I have always considered that 'the World-Wide Web' should be regarded as aproper name (NOT proprietary, of course!) and as such, requires capitals --- and there is a lot of corroboration for this out there.
This is my usual practice.
However, nowadays 'the web' has so much passed into common usage, I am perhaps being somewhat conservative, particularly as it is useful to be able to reserve the capitals for use when one IS indicating some proprietary software etc.
So there you have my hunble opinion, for what it's worth!
This is my usual practice.
However, nowadays 'the web' has so much passed into common usage, I am perhaps being somewhat conservative, particularly as it is useful to be able to reserve the capitals for use when one IS indicating some proprietary software etc.
So there you have my hunble opinion, for what it's worth!
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