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From: "Womick, Don" <dw962s@att.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>,
	emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Language question
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:13:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6886503D1523ED41ACBD82F205B220EA03673D80@ad01msxmb004.US.Cingular.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8260CEF3-AEEF-4E9C-824D-2DBD184671BC@gmail.com>

's always indicates possession, never plurality.

I don't think there's a hard-and-fast choice between "IDs" and "ids",
but "IDs" looks better to me, since it's clear that you're using an
abbreviation. But if you write "id" (singular), be consistent and write
"ids" (plural).

-----Original Message-----
From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+don.womick=cingular.com@gnu.org
[mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+don.womick=cingular.com@gnu.org] On Behalf
Of Carsten Dominik
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:18 AM
To: emacs org-mode mailing list
Subject: [Orgmode] Language question

Hi,

this is a question to the native English speakers out there.

If I write in the documentation

    "Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"

do I then write

     ids
     IDs
     id's
or  ID's

????

Thanks.

- Carsten





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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 15:18 Language question Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-10 16:14   ` Ian Barton
2008-12-10 16:18   ` OT: " Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:42 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-10 16:13 ` Womick, Don [this message]
2008-12-10 17:05   ` Peter Frings
2008-12-10 17:25     ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 17:03 ` Samuel Wales

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