Breaking News! Capitalization Changes!

I remember online discussions about how to spell email. The official spelling used to be e-mail, which I was okay with, even though I opted for email in my personal writing, figuring that was the way the language was going, and eventually it did. I remember when Microsoft, in their style guide changed web site to website, which I have used ever since I learned about it.

But that’s not the news!

According to the AP style guide we don’t have to capitalize internet or web any more.

I’ve long thought internet shouldn’t be capitalized, but what about spiders’ rights? We’ve used web for, um, centuries to name their delicate traps and things like them. The capital W was a nice way to distinguish the two webs. In the future, I guess you’ll have to pay careful attention to the context, eh?

I couldn’t find a comment from a spider

If you’re interested, here’s an article about this and a couple other changes from AP.