Spell Check

online vs on-line vs on line

[fashezee]

online v.s. on-line v.s. on line

Which one is it?

[Dino_M]

online :)

[BlobFisk]

My preference would be "online". At Dictionary.com "on line" gives you a suggested result of "on-line" and "on-line" give you "online".

Google tell us:

online: 14,300,000 results

on line: 6,730,000 results

on-line: 6,730,000 results

It for "on line" and "on-line" it asks do you mean "online".

So..... "online" it is! :)

[Dino_M]

unless your in a really competitive area and then you might consider targetting one of the others, but for pure numbers of potential users online wins hands down.

[fashezee]

thanks ....

[korkus2000]

Remember that AOL is America Online. That maybe effecting the google counts. I believe that online is the correct american version.

[BlobFisk]

Good point about AOL - never even thought of that.

For International and UK English, "online" is the acceptable norm.