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Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 4916
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 9:05 am: | 
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My AP style guide is too old to cover this: should it be "web site" or "website"? Would prefer AP style recommendation, if anyone has current copy. |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 101
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 9:52 am: |
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Don't have the new AP guide, but the brand-new Websters 11th Collegiate goes with Web site (cap the W), (webmaster, webcam, etc. remain closed and lowercase), as does the publication where I work. Chicago 15th also prefers Web site. |
thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 261
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 10:12 am: |
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The Associated Press Style Guide says it's "Web site," with a capital W. (FWIW, the folks at Microsoft say the same in their own style guide.) |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 4917
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 11:33 am: |
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Thank you! |
Mr. Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 279
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 3:30 pm: |
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While we're at it, I go along with the proposal I read somewhere (where?) respectable that says we should spell it "internet" with a lower case 'i'. It's not a company, after all.
Pass the word on! No capital 'I'!
Therefore, I recommend "web site" with a lower case 'w'.
Tom Reingold
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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1851
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 3:53 pm: |
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The correct spelling is "Time sink". |
papayagirl
Citizen
Username: Papayagirl
Post Number: 89
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 4:34 pm: |
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Glad to see you got your answer. Although I have to add... I edit documents and websites with these terms in them all day long, and i can honestly say that unless someone is forcing you to abide by Microsoft, AP, or Chicago, just avoid the headaches and do what you like, as long as you're consistent with yourself/your group.
My personal preference: website (unless at the beginning of a sentence) and Internet. There's no logic, but i don't think any of the guides have any either. |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1786
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 4:49 pm: |
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Tom:
Aren't the names of all geographic locations considered to be proper nouns and therefore written with an initial cap? Isn't the Internet a place? |
sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 34
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 6:03 pm: |
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Someone recently told me with (apparent) authority that the terms Web and Internet should always be capitalized. I had been using website and Internet previously, consistent with Papayagirl. I don't have a style guide or other authority to back this up, however. |
Mr. Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 290
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 12:43 pm: |
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Joan, I consider the internet to be closer to a thing, such as the phone service, which I don't capitalize either. Nor do I capitalize the road system. Neither of these is a proper noun.
Tom Reingold
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Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 681
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 3:53 pm: |
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OK ... email or e-mail? |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 102
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 9:01 am: |
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Webster's Collegiate 11th goes with e-mail; so does Chicago 15th. |
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