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Word usage question...
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Is website one word or two? At Dictionary.com it seems acceptable to use either "website" or "web site." Apple tends to use "website" as does Microsoft. -Just curious...
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I reckon "web site" is better English, but "website" is acceptable (even though OS X spell checker doesn't think so). I use the former.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Googlefight:
website: 346 million
web site: 41.5 million
no contest.
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Originally posted by Mithras:
Googlefight:
website: 346 million
web site: 41.5 million
no contest.
Well, dump your Mac and switch to Windows.
Just 'coz something is numerically superior, don't make it right.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by Mithras:
Googlefight:
website: 346 million
web site: 41.5 million
no contest.
This is interesting:
web site: 51.8 million
web-site: 42.8 million
Why does "web site" gain 10.3 million hits when it runs against "web-site"?
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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This seems to be a case of acceptable usage... it may not be grammatically correct, but it is used in the vernacular to the extent that the word, while incorrect in a formal sense, is accepted without undue comment.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Northampton, MA USA
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From the Associated Press Style Book: Web site. Two words, Web capitalized because it's a short form of World Wide Web.
Web site, Web page, but webcam, webcast, webmaster.
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