E-mail vs. email
We spell e-mail (or is it email?) inconsistently through out Redfin.
I thought it was clear cut since in the past ‘email’ had about 10x the number of hits on Google as ‘e-mail’. However it looks like now they’re about equal but I bet that is because Google normalizes the two to mean the same thing.
We recently debated this and came up with these data points:
- Wikipedia on it:
Spelling of this term is disputed, and varies by field. While “e-mail” (with a hyphen) is used in journalism (such as by the CNN, BBC and New York Times), the computer industry primarily uses the spelling “email” (no hyphen).[1] In particular, the original spelling is “email” (no hyphen), based on the technical roots of the term, as seen in the RFC documents for SMTP [4], POP [5] and IMAP [6], which use “mail” or “email”.
- Wired style: email
- AP style: e-mail
- Hotmail: e-mail
- Google, Yahoo, Mail.com: email
What did we settle on? ‘email’.