RSS 2.0AP Style Guide Kills Web site
AP Stylebook, the writer’s go-to authority on language rules, usage, titles, and more just announced a major change. The message: “Responding to reader input, we are changing Web site to website.”
Is it odd that the news was greeted with hooting and hollering whoops of celebration in our office? Apparently not. Plenty of journalists reacted to the news just as strongly. Finally, an outdated rule has caught up with current usage.
English is an ever-evolving language. Web site came out of the formal reference to the World Wide Web, but tech folks dropped the capitalization long ago, and Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary listed website as the preferred usage.
So hooray to AP for catching up with the times. And how appropriate that they chose to make the announcement via Twitter.
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Great posting. I love the AP Stylebook (yes, I’m a nerd), but that is one I never quite understood.