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This is just my $0.02, but why contribute to an ongoing mislabeling of the
menu (in speech) by formalizing it in the documentation? And does it really
matter how difficult it may be to pronounce, considering you're talking
about _written_ documentation?
If it's labeled "Actions," I'd call it so in the documentation. It might be
a bigger issue if there were a bigger difference between the colloquialism
and the official label (e.g. if everyone called it the Action menu, but it
was labeled Execute). But Action vs. Actions? Big deal.
If you really feel strongly about Action over Actions, then push to change
the UI. Otherwise, I wouldn't sow confusion by labeling it the Actions menu
but referring to it as the Action menu.
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Our software has a drop-down menu button labelled "Actions."
In the first edition of the user manual I called that menu the "Actions
menu," because that is how it is labelled and I didn't want to cause any
confusion; but the fact is that nobody really calls it that in speech - they
call it the "Action menu." (I actually find "Actions menu" kind of hard to
pronounce. It trips up my tongue in the middle.)
For the next edition of the user manual I'd like to start calling that thing
the "Action menu," even though it will still be labelled "Actions." Any
thoughts?
(I guess I could lobby to get it renamed "Action," but I don't really think
that's what I want. It does contain more than one possible action, and so it
should be plural. What I want is for it to be labelled "Actions" and
referred to as the "Action menu.")
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