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It’s time people stopped using the word “Dear...” to start work e-mails. That’s according to Giselle Barry, a woman who works in the United States Congress (国会). She surprised lots of people by starting an email to a group of journalists (记者) with the words “Hey, folks.”

Ms Barry thinks “Dear” is too intimate and makes it sound like you have a personal relationship with the person you are writing to.

It seems she’s not alone. E-mail and the Internet have changed the rules about how to write. In the past, there was no choice, but now you can see e-mails from people starting with “hello”, “hi” and even “hey”.

The American newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, wrote “Across the Internet, the use of ‘dear’ is going...”

But not everyone agrees with Ms Barry. Etiquette(礼仪) expert Jean Broke-Smith says, “I’m fed up with people writing ‘Hi Jean’ when they’ve never met me.”

“If you’re sending a business e-mail you should begin ‘Dear…’—like a letter. Politeness and etiquette are important.”