Michael Quinion of World Wide Words decrees that from now on "internet" shall be lowercased in his newsletter, following global trends: are you listening, Ted Anthony at AP and Phil Corbett at the New York Times?

hat tip to:

WORLD WIDE WORDS ISSUE 691 Saturday 19 June 2010
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Sent each Saturday to at least 50,000 subscribers by e-mail and RSS
Editor: Michael Quinion US advisory editor: Julane Marx
Website: http://www.worldwidewords.org ISSN 1470-1448
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As a final change, I have decided to go with the majority view and
will spell the words as "website" and "internet" from now on. But I
baulk at "email".