Filling out a form to request hotel reservation information on a French site, I was asked to enter my “courriel”. What the #&$% is a courriel ? And so I look it up… oh? It just means email address. It’s short for courrier electronique. The best is that it exists since 2003…WOW!
Excerpt from french.about.com :
le courriel [cu ryel]
L’Académie française vient de choisir « courriel » en tant que traduction officielle de courrier électronique – The Académie française just chose “courriel” as the official French translation of email.
Envoyer qqch par courriel – to email something
