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Instead, it will now use the word "courriel," a hybrid of the French words for electronic mail.
This is especially true if the computer is used primarily for word processing, electronic mail, keeping a calendar and to-do list, and browsing the Internet -- applications that generally do not demand the latest and most powerful processors.
If the computer is used mainly for games, word processing, electronic mail or other tasks where date sequence is not critical, the Y2K problem is at best an annoyance (on the home computer, at least; the local bank and utility company's computers are another story).
Word and document processing, electronic mail, and office automation are integrated with desktop computers, printers, database systems, and other tools using wireless networks and widespread Internet access.
At its best, such a system would enable students to solve most of their problems - word processing, basic calculations, electronic mail - on a personal computer.
At that point, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary are guessing, "electronic mail" became "email" (or "e-mail"), and a cornucopia of e-prefixed words would follow over the next few decades.
When the word e-mail first made its appearance in the early 1980s (often capitalized as E-mail), it was simply a shortening of electronic mail, and so it worked grammatically much like the mass noun mail.
Spam is unsolicited electronic mail.
