Coming from someone who wasn't alive at the time, I think it's a quite natural thing to shorten these kinds of terms in colloquial English. For example, basketball phenom Dwayne Wade is affectionately referred to as D-Wade. So I can imagine (much like someone suggested earlier) that there were multiple instances of the term being coined.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Guy Almes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galmes@tamu.edu" target="_blank">galmes@tamu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Noel,<br>
I agree. If you'd asked me, I'd have said I'd been using email since the mid-70s (grad school days at CMU-CS), but it might have taken several years for the term to develop.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- Guy</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 6/18/12 7:14 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:<br>
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> From: Eric Gade<<a href="mailto:eric.gade@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.gade@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br>
> It seems that Network World is asking the wrong question, from a<br>
> historian's perspective. It doesn't matter when the specific term<br>
> 'email' was coined. What matters is the evolution of electronic mail<br>
<br>
Right, but we already know pretty much all about that (some people here<br>
actually did some of it). The question of 'where the term came from' is thus<br>
really the only open question.<br>
<br>
Noel<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Eric<br>