Language Dilemma of the Day

Today’s language dilemma of the day is – how do you spell web site?

Should it be two words or one? Should there be any capitalisation because its a noun? Or should I really not care. Obviously I care, because I am the grammar police.

Asking some "authoritative" sites on the net give us the following results;

• Dictionary.com says one word or two. So they are no help.
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has no opinion either way. So they are no help.
• Everything2.com is firmly of the opinion that it is two seperate words. But they rejected a post I lovingly wrote about a year ago so I shall ignore them in a fit of pique.
• Ahem, Microsoft Word, ahem is happy with either one word or two. So they are probably wrong, as usual.
• Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, entitles its entry with only one word but does mention that the two word version is a valid alternative.

So there you go, a conclusive result. No one really cares. Except the grammar police of course, and we are still watching you.

As Wikipedia is the coolest site, at least in nerd terms anyway, we will take its lead. From now on I will use website, but tolerate the use of web site by those less englightened.

This whole exercise does of course raise the question of exactly how exciting my life is. The current answer is – not very.