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		eberfreitas on March 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) The problem with that is that "email" is an actual word in other languages. In Portuguese, "email" is email, but "mail" means nothing so I guess "email" is a better "global" option...

Xylakant on March 1, 2014 [–]

In German "Email" means enamel, so the blessed spelling is E-Mail.

ansimionescu on March 2, 2014 | [–]

Same in Romanian (and probably many other European languages), but it's never confusing due to the huge difference in usage frequency, context, and obviously different pronunciation.

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