[PER] please stop using term "web log"

[congeries]

Dear New Yorker, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and others**,

Please stop using the term "web log" to refer to a chronologically-ordered frequently-updated website. The correct term is "weblog". Furthermore, "blog" is not short for "web log", it is short for "weblog".

хорошая история происхождения словечка... - It's "weblog" not "web log"

Comments

[jensantarelli.livejournal.com]

yay, someone who has some sense! :)

the other one that really bugs me is "e-mail." grammatically speaking, it is abbreviated like the words d-day and c-section, but yet people still insist that it should be spelled without the hyphen.

[centralasian.livejournal.com]

tend to agree :)