On Sunday 21 January 2007 17:48, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes wrote: > Søndag 21 januar 2007 16:16, skrev Francois Gouget: > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes wrote: > > > Langauge fixes for the FAQ. > > > > -<p><b>Q: How can I submit How-to's?</b></p> > > +<p><b>Q: How can I submit how-to's?</b></p> > > > > I tend to prefer 'howto' or 'how to' rather than 'how-to'. > > Also, plurals normally don't have a single quote. So I'd write > > 'howtos'. Alternately this could be rephrased as 'How can I submit a > > how to?'. > > how-to is not really a normal word, and to my knowledge, these kinds of > words should have 's instead of s.
Not that I know of. I think most native speakers just get the plural s and the 's genitive mixed up. Like their, there and they're. Of course, I'd have to ask a native speaker to confirm that. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin, <kai Dot blin At gmail Dot com> WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin/ -- Will code for cotton.
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