Email

[Tdol]

We'd say 'I got a lot of post'. Letters, parcels, etc, would be the countable versions.

[Susie Smith]

We'd say 'I got a lot of post'. Letters, parcels, etc, would be the countable versions.

So, why don't you guys call it electronic post? Then we could argue about whether it should be epost or eposts.

[Tdol]

We tend to take computing terms directly from American; we write 'TV prgramme', but 'computer program'.

[henry]

Quite crazy language, what?

[Tdol]

Absolutely, what?

[queenmaabd]

Although email originally comes from the term electronic mail, it is used as a general term referring to all the electronic mail (therefore can be uncountable, like the word mail) but also to refer to one single piece of mail. As the term electronic letter is not accepted (who would think of it?) we use email in a specific countable way, thus rendering it countable as well!

[Tdol]

I agree completely with you.