Hi all,
On Thursday 14 October 2004 16:00, Kuba Ober wrote:
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 [...]
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 ;)
If wine had only a single user then "Wine User's Guide" would be correct; but, as we hope wine has multiple users then "Wine Users' Guide" is correct.
(general rule is: if the possessing object doesn't end with s, add 's. If it does, then add just the apostrophe. For example: if Simons owns a ball, which is red, then Simons' ball is red.)
Cheers,
Paul.
PS. Have a wee goosie at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors