E-mail or email? What's your preference?

e-mail, but lately I've seen so many emails that I sometimes use email as well. I think someone on this site has even claimed that the "correct" form is email. But they may be the ones that are also still capitalizing internet. Who knows?

CJ

CalifJimBut they may be the ones that are also still capitalizing internet.

Hey! I can hear you, you know.

For what it's worth, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, fifth edition (2002), has email as the entry word, "also e-mail". I might just start dropping that hyphen.

enoonHey! I can hear you, you know.

Was that you who preferred Internet? I had no idea.

According to Collins Cobuild Dictionary, both versions (e-mail and email) are correct. I prefer email.

Email is shorter (by only one character, admittedly, but still shorter), and we have a strong tendency to drop hyphens as terms enter wide use anyway, so I personally just use email. Plus, the letters e and i are rapidly becoming standard prefixes in their own right.

CSnyder Plus, the letters e and i are rapidly becoming standard prefixes in their own right.

"E" has been that for a very long time. People may not think of it as a prefix, though, unless they are familiar with some Latin.

to emit = Latin ex (out) + mittere (to send)
to emigrate = Latin ex + migrare (to move)
to e