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RE: Is there such a thing as a 'Commonly accepted US and UK/CommonwealthTerms' list that is online and available to all? Should PDFsalways be PDF's for a US audience, if it is a book?
Subject:RE: Is there such a thing as a 'Commonly accepted US and UK/CommonwealthTerms' list that is online and available to all? Should PDFsalways be PDF's for a US audience, if it is a book? From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:"Technical Writing Plus" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>, "TECHWR-L Writing" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:44:19 -0600
Technical Writing Plus wrote:
> Copyediting a book for a US audience. I like the styling of *PDFs*
more
> than
> I like *PDF's*. But, this kind of thing can be important to the
audience.
Gack! That's the "greengrocer's apostrophe," and is _absolutely_ wrong
for forming plurals -- US or UK.
> And words such as 'subentry' should be 'sub entry', and 'AutoCorrect'
> should
> be 'Auto Correct', right?
No, and probably no.
Reasonable people can disagree about whether the word for a subordinate
entry is "sub-entry" or "subentry." I'd lean toward the former for now,
while recognizing that hyphenated words tend to lose the hyphen over
time.
But "sub entry" has something to do with access to an underwater vessel.
And if "AutoCorrect" is the name of a feature or a label in the
interface (as in Word), then it should appear exactly that way.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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