Rename Wine User Guide to Wine User's Guide?
Dimitrie O. Paun
dpaun at rogers.com
Thu Oct 14 12:00:41 CDT 2004
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:18:23AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:00 AM -0400 Kuba Ober
> <kuba at mareimbrium.org> wrote:
>
> >Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The
> >user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide.
>
> Would it not be "Users' Guide"? A guide for *all* users? (Plural)
No, we have Developer's Guide. Because we're addressing the book
to *the* person reading it. In fact, you seem to have found the
answer:
> OTOH, I just plugged "users guide" into Amazon and the results on the first
> page are all "User's Guide" (singular).
:) So let's stick to User's Guide. It's the norm.
--
Dimi.
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