Imaginary Landscape
RSS FeedI am a great fan of the Associated Press Stylebook. I have had a copy on my desk for the past 20 years.
I try to enforce their guidelines throughout all that I write and review. I have been known to scrawl nasty comments next to improper usage when reviewing documents. I have summarily dismissed candidates from consideration when I observe errors on their resumes and cover letters. In short, I am a stickler for proper and consistent use of the English language.
I spent a lot of time correcting "website." "Web site," I would scrawl with my preferred quill, a red Flair, "is the proper use."
Two words; Web capitalized.
Recently, an old staff member of mine Tweeted me the news that the AP Stylebook has decided to change "Web site" to "website" in their upcoming 2010 book. From her Tweet:
@Brian_Moloney OMG I'll never be able to adjust thx to u rt @APStylebook Responding to reader input, we are changing Web site to website.
I could hardly believe it. I dug deeper and found the new entry:
website: A location on the World Wide Web that maintains one or more pages at a specific address. Also, webcam, webcast and webmaster. But as a short form and in terms with separate words, the Web, Web page and Web feed.
So it is written, so it shall be.
Now, I just need to reverse 15 years of muscle memory.
Updated 07/09/10 @ 05:30PM CDT by brian
Categories: Web News
