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Monday, November 05, 2007
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- Name: Tony
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5 Comments:
Tony, is it "Blackberries" or "Blackberrys"? I see you say "Blackberrys"... is this current usage? Must I still hypenate "e-mail"? Enlighten me, oh linguigeek!
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11/08/2007 9:11 PM
I chose the spelling "BlackBerrys" on the grounds that it's a proper name, and a brand name, and thus exempt from regular spelling changes.
According to RIM, maker of the BlackBerry, the correct plural is "BlackBerry devices"... cop-out! Like when Sony said the plural should be "Walkman radios".
Not sure what current usage is, but a trademarked name should never be altered. (I guess on that principal it would be better to say "BlackBerry devices", since adding an "s" alters the name.)
11/09/2007 11:54 AM
No one will ever say "BlackBerry devices". It is a cop-out. Your usage seems the best. But why the gratuitously capitalized B in BlackBerry?
It looks cool.
Can you resolve my problem with hyphenating e-mail?
Blah blah blah.
11/09/2007 12:59 PM
Re. BlackBerry: It's how RIM spells it... and my company's marketing department makes me correct copy on our own sites if there's a posting that spells it "Blackberry".
Email vs. e-mail... typically over time words that are hyphenated lose their hyphens: "yellow-jacket" becomes "yellowjacket". I don't know how long it's supposed to take, and in addition, that refers to cases where two words are hyphenated, not a letter and a word. "T-note" will almost certainly no become "tnote". on this logic, I prefer "e-mail", but I'm not dogmatic about it. If the Chicago Manual of Style or the AP Stylebook says "email", I could switch.
Meanwhile, my own company's policy was, for a long time, "email", and I had to correct it everywhere. Then we had a staff change in Marketing and currently we seem to be officially agnostic on the subject of e-mail hyphenation. Actually, I tend to type "email" because that's what we were supposed to use, even though I think "e-mail" is more appropriate.
Incidentally, the AP Stylebook says "e-mail" is right. The Chicago Manual of Style doesn't have an answer available for free on their web site.
11/09/2007 1:29 PM
Can I continue my personal effort to make the plural of "Egg McMuffin" into "Eggs McMuffin"?
On a similar note, I read recently a discussion of how the use of apostrophe in the McDonalds sandwich name "Big N' Tasty" can only be interpreted as "Big No Tasty" ("Big AND Tasty" would have to be "Big 'N' Tasty") So true. I love finding people as interested in punctuation as I am. Also - see Eric Zorn's comments in the Sunday Trib about the apostrophe cafe... but oh, I digress, in anonymous commenture...
11/12/2007 3:39 PM
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