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As 'e' represents 'electronic', e-mail is formed from two words, so this suggests that we should not then run one into the other to form 'email'. It is a compound noun, where the first adjectival element is reduced to a single letter, just like T-bone steak and not Tbone! The word 'e-mail' (and others like e-business, e-commerce, i-knowledge) is just a common noun and so does not require an upper-case letter to start it, in normal use. Just like any other word, though, if it starts a sentence, it will have an upper-case 'E'.

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