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'Nuff said. I used to spell it "E-mail," but after some thought, why would you capitalize the "e"? You wouldn't capitalize the word "electronic" if you said "electronic mail" would you? I've also read that, if you're writing it in print, the accepted spelling is "e-mail," but for web publishing, it's "email"? Anyone here know what the official grammatical stance on this is?

I use email, ir I'll just call it 'mail'. Shortest, simplest form.

Depends, I guess. If I am typing or writing something formal, I usually spell it E-mail. If I'm just typing here or informal notes of some sort or Emailing a friend I do the Email thingy.

I usually say email.

E-mail. Though I also capitalise "Internet," but that's technically how it's supposed to be.

*myan*

I usually use e-mail unless it for a proper grammatical use, given it's name is electronic mail and not a proper noun as to it.

I try and use all three interchangeably, not knowing which is correct, I'm right at least 1/3 of the time.

e-mail or email, depending on whether I want to be lazy or gramatically correct.

i'll use either one, just depending on how lazy i feel. Don't really bother keeping track.

The online dictionary used by google defines all 3, but email is the actual entry. What about computer magazines? PC World? If anybody has got it down, it'd should be them.

I use e-mail and capitalised when it is the start of a sentence

I use e-mail, or just mail.
email would be stupid looking in German, as this means "enamel" in German

Durandal wrote:'Nuff said. I used to spell it "E-mail," but after some thought, why would you capitalize the "e"? You wouldn't capitalize the word "electronic" if you said "electronic mail" would you? I've also read that, if you're writing it in print, the accepted spelling is "e-mail," but for web publishing, it's "email"? Anyone here know what the official grammatical stance on this is?

Where is the "I couldn't care less" button?

I use "e-mail." The Computer Networks textbook for one of my classes calls it "e-mail," so I guess I won't be making any changes anytime soon.

I believe e-mail and email are both accepted spellings. Both are commonly used though I tend to favor the former since it is more in line with original abbreviation.

According to federal government of Canada editing rules, there's a hyphen and no capitalization. Now, that doesn't necessarily MEAN anything, but...

Durandal wrote:'Nuff said. I used to spell it "E-mail," but after some thought, why would you capitalize the "e"? You wouldn't capitalize the word "electronic" if you said "electronic mail" would you? I've also read that, if you're writing it in print, the accepted spelling is "e-mail," but for web publishing, it's "email"? Anyone here know what the official grammatical stance on this is?

Grammatically, I think it's e-mail, since it's a shortened form but the words go together. However, if I'm typing the word 'e-mail' laziness overcomes me. Do you know how much effort it's taking me to write the word now?

'Raine

Whatever works. I'd use any of them.

I use "e-mail" because there are things like "e-commerce" though I may use "email" to be informal instead. The "e" shouldn't need a capital as it is just for electronic as we all know, but the "i" in Internet can be capitalised as the word is a proper noun much like the name of a company or person.

I use e-mail when writing in English.

Informal writing "email", for documents "e-mail".

if I be rappin' in da alley, den I tell mah homie t' send me some 'e'

Generally I spell it as email, though I do use e-mail and occasionally I write E-mail. But I have a tendency to capitalize words that shouldn't be.

Eh, I think I type e-mail on more formal documents, but for casual use (like here) I type email. If it's good enough for Strong Bad, it's good enough for me.

I type email.

However it happens to come out. Doesn't really matter to me.