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The AP Stylebook is dropping the hyphen from "e-mail". This does not, as might be suspected, mean that the AP has been taken over by subliterate grunters. The AP has always been forced by the necessities of putting ink on paper to strip down to something like English but simpler; it also eliminates the essential comma before "and" or "or" in a series and forms the possessive of names ending in "s" by simply putting an apostrophe after. This does not mean that the AP is too stupid to know better any more than texters and Twitterers can be presumed incapable of spelling "you." I will, however, give the AP a warning I've given before: Don't come crying to me when you see lines ending with "em-" followed by "-ail" (which is not as amusing as "hor-" "-semen").

Thanx to Lisa Gold: Research Maven