I often have people come to me with grammatical inquires. I suppose it's because I'm one of those annoying people that will correct you if you use "who" when "whom" is more appropriate. I'm not an expert on grammar and I know i make plenty of my own mistakes in my writtings; but i do enjoy learning the rules. I think my interest started as a freshman at West Catholic where i had the world's greatest English teacher, Dale Gosset. That man pushed hard and let nothing slide. When i was talking my required English composition class at GRCC, i always felt way ahead of the game during peer reviews.
Today a friend asked me which was correct: "voicemail box, " "voice mailbox," or "voice mail box." This was one we never covered in class. Quickly i realized that dictionaries are of no help in matters such as these. I started to do some searching and quickly discovered there was no universal standard. Princeton had a nice technology style guide which would seem to favor the last of the three options. Verizon wasn't even consistent in its spelling on a single page. SBC favored option number two. I personally went for the first choice. Anyone else want to register an opinion?
Posted by Matthew at August 24, 2004 11:14 PM"Voicemail." I say this because I've noticed a fair share of technology columnist using it this way. Sho-nuff.
Posted by: Kevin at August 27, 2004 08:39 AM