Re: User's, Users, Users'

Subject: Re: User's, Users, Users'
From: Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:39:19 -0700


hillc -at- ctcorp -dot- com wrote:
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
>
> I've had feedback from various sources who have all quoting me
> various grammatical rules as to why it should be User's, or
> Users, or Users'. Is there a standard? Is there a right way and
> wrong way?
>

Our titling guidelines call for "User's," on the theory
that only one person at a time is reading the guide. Even
though you are documenting games that may have a multi-
player environment, usually only one person is reading
the guide at a time.

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