Date:    Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:46:14 +0100
<br>From:    Aaron Drews <aaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LING.ED.AC.UK>
<br>Subject: Transatlantic E-mail
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<br>I remember when I was at Edinburgh for an undergraduate year, and "e-mail"
<br>was always treated as a count noun, with "an" and "-s".  It sounded wierd
<br>to me.
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<br>Then I got back to the States, and I seldom heard it as a count noun, but
<br>certainly as a transitive verb.
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<br>Now I'm back at Edinburgh and I'm all confused.  For me, it's now a count
<br>noun and a transitive verb.  It's usually only the technologically
<br>advanced people here that use 'e-mail' as a transitive verb.
<br>
<br>Has anybody heard an e-mail address referred to as an e-mail number?
<br>That's common here, at least amongst the student population.  Then again,
<br>all of the students' addresses use their matriculation number.
<br>
<br>--Aaron
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<br>Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
<br>+44 (0)131 650-3485                      Departments of English Language
<br>http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron                          and Linguistics
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