RE: Mine, mine....ALL mine!

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Chris Morton wrote: 

> POLL:
> 
> User Manual
> User's Manual
> Users' Manual

User. Keep it simple. And don't risk the growing problem of wandering
apostrophes. 

Or, as others have suggested, drop the "user" concept entirely:
Maintenance Manual, Operations Guide, API Reference, etc.

If you want to stay with "user," quit worrying about the singular
suggesting you only have "one user." It's an abstraction -- _a_ user,
not _the_ user. 

I assume you'll ship more than one copy of the book, but that doesn't
mean the title should be "Users Manuals"! 

Richard 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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