[DCRM-L] Citing ESTC

[Jeff Barton]

Apart from dictionary citations (all which I've seen now using 'online,' as 
others have pointed put), I think the general historical trend in actual 
usage has been from 'on-line' to 'online.'  In the anciente dayes of the 
90s, I remember sometimes seeing both on-line and online, but the hyphen 
gave way as the term became more mainstream (along the same lines as 
website, web-site, web site, but online is probably more universally 
accepted than website.)


Jeff Barton
Manager of the Library  (former online, not on-line, editor)
The Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-222-4111 x292
jbarton at brooklynhistory.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Cook" <cdcook at uiuc.edu>
To: "DCRM Revision Group List" <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:43 PM
Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] Citing ESTC


> If the qualifier is used after ESTC, I too would question the hyphen. In 
> addition to Webster's, the Oxford English Dictionary gives "online".
>
> Christopher D. Cook
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