At Random House, I was happy to help push “website” along—if you’re apt to encounter a word dozens of times a day, you’ll tend to want to make that word as simple as possible—though I still feel a pang of remorse over my acquiescence to “email”—doesn’t “e-mail” look better and, more important, look like what it sounds like? But “email” was happening whether I liked it or not, and, as in so many things, one can be either on the bus or under the bus.
