Rename Wine User Guide to Wine User's Guide?

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Thu Oct 14 10:00:18 CDT 2004


On niedziela 10 październik 2004 02:04 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:10:06AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > > I think for consistency's sake we should rename the Wine User Guide to
> > > Wine User's Guide - afterall, it's a guide for the user, not about the
> > > user.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > Go for it.
>
> What about the cruelty to the common apostroph? I am not a native speaker,
> but it looks wrong there.

Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The 
user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide. User guide sounds like a 
u-channel where you'd shove users in order to keep them guided ;)

Cheers, Kuba Ober




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