[WEB4LIB] RE: spelling conventions

[Margaret F. Dikel]

At 11:52 AM 9/30/98 -0700, Walter Minkel wrote:
>Folks-- Two of us in this department have recently contributed to books
>published by ALA Editions and Neal-Schuman, and the editors there insist
>on "Web site" as two words. One thing I've seen fairly frequently, though,
>is "Web site" (Web capitalized) and "website" (lowercase) in the same
>place. Where are the proactive lexicographers to settle the issue?

Having done my own Internet book and working as a frequent contributor
to articles on the Internet, I think you'll find that publishers/editors
choose a 
style and stick with it, no matter what.   My newspaper column editor still
insists on "on-line," but I have convinced the book editors to make some
changes to their accepted lexicon.

Margaret


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