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Poll: Internet terminology

Internet terminology

online
on-line
on line

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This Poll:

  • Votes: 481
  • Comments: 3
  • Added: August 2004

Comments:

pdecaux

I think that online is preferable, although on-line conveys the same meaning and is possibly better, grammatically.

udara

I gather both online and on-line are perfectly correct. But I'm not quite sure of actual usage.

Haseeb

i think that on-line is much correct grammatically rather than online, but by convention we prefer to write to write online...

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