Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 ;)
I have always operated on the principle that if two people can argue about it then it should be written a different way, so how about one of: Guide for Wine Users Guide to Using Wine Wine: a guide for Users Using Wine No apostrophes, grocer's or otherwise. Peter PS: I thought it out to have been "Wine Users' Guide" as it belongs to users in the plural rather than a particular user, iff ownership does not accrue to the author ....
