Email

Paul Gallian

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You go to your mailbox (outside, inside or wherever) collect your mail.

You take a seat and read your (mail or mails)?

Next scenario.

You turn on your computer check your mail and find you have several waiting.

Do you read your email or emails.

If email stands for electronic mail -- why do people use the word emails? Would email be correct the same as mail is? No "S" ?

I vote for mail and email not mails and emails.
 
I use just e-mail. I don't use the term e-mails.

Same here.

And I don't send someone an e-mail. I send an e-mail message. E-mail is the system; messages are the result of the system. :rolleyes:

Then the other debate: e-mail vs. email. The Microsoft Manual of Style says it's e-mail (with the hyphen), although Google trends show that the hyphenated version is being used less and less, and use of "email" is on an upward swing.
 
I send an email and I read a whole bunch of email, no 's'. Our environmental exposure forms our verbal assault on the world and our language. I often get a kick out of how people use certain terms or how they characterize a certain phrase or word. I wash my car but due to frequent exposure in my formative years, I wash my clothes in a "warshing" machine, my dishes in a "dish-warsher" and use a "warsh-cloth" on my face. I wash almost everything else ;-)

Funny old world, ain't it?
 
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