carbon copy mail to someone.

[tufguy]

We send a mail to someone do we say we carbon copy it to others? For example "Tom sent a mail to Tim and carbon copied it to Bill and Sam".

 

[Tdol]

A letter or an email? In email, I only hear the term cc and bcc used. And it is decades since since I actually saw a carbon copy of anything.

 

[GoesStation]

Although cc meant "carbon copy" in the days when that was the common way to make a copy of a letter, nowadays it's a word of its own. You can write Tom cc'd it.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you don't want to use "cc" and "bcc" as verbs, you can say:

Please copy him in.
Please blind-copy him in.

 

[tufguy]

If you don't want to use "cc" and "bcc" as verbs, you can say:

Please copy him in.
Please blind-copy him in.

While sending an email to my manager I cced my A.M.

While sending an email to my manager I copied my A.M in.

 

[emsr2d2]

Don't use "while sending" in either. It sounds as if you did two things at the same time but they weren't necessarily connected.

I sent an email to my manager and I cc'ed my assistant manager in. (Note the apostrophe in cc'ed.)
I sent an email to my manager and I copied my assistant manager in.

(I have assumed that "A.M." means "Assistant Manager".)

 

[Barb_D]

The use of "in" is confusing to me - is that a British use?

I emailed my manager and cc'd/copied my AM. (no "in")
I copied my MY on the email I sent my manager.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yup, it must be! It's not correct in BrE without "in".

Please copy me in.
He copied me in.
I want to be copied in on every email you send.

 

[GoesStation]

The use of "in" is confusing to me - is that a British use?

I emailed my manager and cc'd/copied my AM. (no "in")
I copied my MY on the email I sent my manager.

I didn't notice that. The in isn't used in American English.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

When we send (delete a) mail to someone, do we say we carbon copy it to others? For example: "Tom sent a mail to Tim and carbon copied it to Bill and Sam".

Whether it's by email or post, we do one of three things:

- say we cced it.
- say we sent a copy.
- after our name at the bottom, add CC, cc, CC:, or cc: followed by a list of everyone else who received a copy:



To learn more you can Google business letter format.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd write CCed rather than cced or cc'd.

Compare: 'The John Doe on the pathologist's slab was later IDed as Ivan Astipain. He had ODed on methylated spirits, mistaking it for methamphetamine.'

 

[emsr2d2]

I have been incorrect for years, then.

So would you say "Please copy John to your email"?

 

[emsr2d2]

No, but I would not use 'in' in any of the sentences in Posts #7 or 8.

:shock:

Genuinely surprised. I would find "Please copy me" or "He copied me" very odd indeed when referring to CCing an email.

 

[tufguy]

:shock:

Genuinely surprised. I would find "Please copy me" or "He copied me" very odd indeed when referring to CCing an email.

Can we say "Keep someone in CC"?

 

[Tdol]

I'd write CCed rather than cced or cc'd.

I'm a cc'd BrE speaker. ;-)

 

[Tdol]

Can we say "Keep someone in CC"?

Probably

 

[emsr2d2]

I guess you could say "Please keep John CC'ed in to all emails on this topic".

 

[Rover_KE]

I guess you could say "Please keep John CC'ed in to all emails on this topic".

What's the function of the apostrophe there?

 

[emsr2d2]

What's the function of the apostrophe there?

None at all! I overlooked the fact that I'd used capital "C" so I used the apostrophe I would use in "cc'ed". In all honesty, I write/type it so rarely, I'm starting to wonder if I even know how I write it at all. I think I tend to use it only in the present tense. If I were writing in the past tense, I'd use "copied in".

 

[GoesStation]

Can we say "Keep someone in CC"?

I don't know what you're trying to say there. Can you express the idea with different words?