Should these terms be one word or two?
Do terms such as ‘headshot’ and ‘username’ look wrong to you?
Corporate communicators can become easily distracted by style and usage issues.
For example, when someone asks a usage question, I can’t let it go until I find out the answer.
This week’s distraction was the term “cyber security.” A co-worker was insisting that the term was now one word, “cybersecurity.” And indeed, I confirmed this with several dictionaries and in the AP Stylebook. “Cyber” is now considered an accepted prefix. So “cybersecurity”—like “cyberspace” or “cyberbullying”—is one word.
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