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View Poll Results: What is the right short form of 'electronic book'? | |||
eBook | 37 | 21.14% | |
ebook | 90 | 51.43% | |
e-book | 27 | 15.43% | |
none of them | 3 | 1.71% | |
The blue one next to the fish | 18 | 10.29% | |
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01-08-2013, 05:12 PM | #91 |
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01-08-2013, 05:15 PM | #92 |
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and there is no extra e in Kenny despite what mama put on the birth certificate...
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01-08-2013, 05:17 PM | #93 |
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01-08-2013, 05:19 PM | #94 |
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And Jon came before John. The problem is too many people assume that Jon is John and add the h and make it all wrong. So let's do away with the h makine it just Jon and no more annoying mistakes.
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01-08-2013, 05:21 PM | #95 |
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Unless you were christened John, in which case that's what you want to be called
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01-08-2013, 05:30 PM | #96 |
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John predates Jon by many centuries. Jon used to be a nickname for Jonathan, and only recently became a given name in its own right. If you include the names from which John is derived, the "h" goes back many more centuries. John and Jon look similar, but they aren't the same name at all.
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01-08-2013, 11:31 PM | #97 |
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Also, "Jonathan" is properly pronounced "Jo-nathan," as in "Jo-nathan, shovel out the john and fetch me some more terbaccer!"
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01-08-2013, 11:38 PM | #98 |
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There's no necessity driving sites to adopt a single standard, and as e-books as a category become less controversial, there's less necessity to refer to format at all except when expressly distinguishing from physical media. |
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01-09-2013, 06:43 AM | #101 |
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01-09-2013, 07:50 AM | #103 |
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John is so much more interesting then Jon...
The john (who's name was John), paid the prostitute while sitting on the john. (I'm not sure about proper capitalization.) |
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01-09-2013, 09:21 AM | #105 |
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e-books is not a word. A word with a hyphen has two separate words joined together by the hyphen to make one word. e is not a word on its own so it doesn't work. Take hard-won (for example), you have both hard & won that make up hard-won. Both are separate words. e is not a word so e-books is not valid.
If anything, the word that finally wins the battle is going to either be eBooks or ebooks. But e-books being invalid cannot be the word. |
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