The term "chain email" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use this phrase to refer to an email sent out to multiple people that then prompts each recipient to forward the same message, often with the same subject line, to several more people. For example, "Please ignore that chain email going around about the upcoming office holiday party - it's not official information."
Can you take me out of this chain email please?
The website snopes.com — which investigates urban legends, myths, rumors and pretty much anything forwarded in a chain email — could find little proof that the story is true.
"There's a bit of a chain email going on between captain Courier, myself, Sam and the Bryan brothers," said Isner, referring to Sam Querrey, Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan.
We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rumors, superstitions and lies.
Otherwise described as people falling down wormholes of quoted tweet upon quoted tweet, like climbing the never ending staircase of an Escher creation, or becoming wrapped up in a chain email.
But there is also a lot of fresh stuff in Mr. Steinberg's puzzle, like RACK OF LAMB, ELAINE CHAO, BUTTER DISH, CHAIN EMAIL, TEXT ALERTS, BOHO CHIC, INDIAN FOOD, STICKY RICE, NEON YELLOW and HIDDEN MIKE.
Some Clinton supporters have been blamed over anonymous chain emails questioning Obama's citizenship, but none of the rumormongers were linked to the campaign.
Some Clinton supporters have been blamed over anonymous chain emails for questioning Obama's citizenship, but none of the rumormongers were linked to the campaign.
Philips has also had his jokes passed on by chain emails, often wrongly attributed to the likes of Peter Kay or John Cleese.
And down where the conservative rank and file get their information — the talk radio rants, the right-wing blogs, the breathless chain emails — these two contradictory ideas are both widely circulated.
Whether its something simple like wearing green, sending out chain emails, or calling into radio shows.
