AP new style changes announced, email loses hyphen

• AP announces new style changes

3/18/11, "Effective as of 3 a.m. EDT Saturday, March 19, it will be:

• • email, instead of e-mail. (Other “e” terms, such as e-book and e-commerce, retain the hyphen,)

• • Kolkata, India, instead of Calcutta, India. To follow local style.

• • cellphone, smartphone become one word. (No longer cell phone and smart phone.)

• • handheld, n., hand-held, adj."...

from Poynter.org/Romenesko

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