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Dec 7, 2014

Mail vs. Email

By Martin in False friends, General Tag countable, e-mail, email, english, german, mail, uncountable

Here is an interesting grammatical fact about the nouns mail and email. In English, mail is an uncountable noun (see here), which means that Send me a mail is not grammatical. However, even though email (or E-mail) is a short form of electronic mail, it can be both countable and uncountable (see here). Hence, Send