Don’t be passing up good jobs just because you lack the appropriate education.
— From a spam message about enrolling for some sort of education program.
I guess they are trying to write to their audience’s level.
I was just drafting an email and wanted to know if there is a standard way of writing out “open source,” like, is it capitalized.
I happen to have the “Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications, Third Edition” on my desk, and I found no entry for anything resembling “open source” in it.
Somehow, I wasn’t surprised.
Searched Google for “email” and returned 802,000,000 results.
Searched Google for “e-mail” and returned 1,300,000,000 results. But, also got Google’s “Did you mean: email?” prompt, which suggests that Google, at least, has “email” as a preferred term with “e-mail” as a variant term.
I almost always write “email,” but when I think about it, putting in the hyphen makes sense to me. But then, our language is changing, and probably the version without the hyphen is already accepted as proper English.