Re: User's Guide or User Guide (was RE: Technical Writer or Documentation Writer?)

[Writers Book Mall <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com>]

I've always preferred user guide. Perhaps it just
seems a little easier to say?

--- Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com> wrote:

> 
>   Is it a case of proper English---Microsoft (User's
> Guide)
>   or geekspeak---Adobe (User Guide)?
>    
>   Does it feel like proper English to use a person
> or a person's trade
>  as an adjective?
>   Sure there are cookbooks and style guides, but
> these don't feel right:
>   Mechanic Guide, Chauffeur Guide, Cook Guide,
> Employee Guide?
>    
>   Having the "a guide to..." understood, helps: 
>     [A] Mechanic's Guide [to...], and so on.
>    
>   A query on Amazon for "user+guide" lists both,
> with more cases of User's Guide than the other.
>    
>   Thoughts?
>    
>   YJ


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