Stream: Ballot-QA
Topic: prural of an attribute
Michael van der Zel (Mar 26 2018 at 06:04):
In the resource compartmentdefinition the definition of attribute "useContext" is talking about multiple "useContext" values. It uses the prural "useContexts". I would say that this should be written as "useContext's" because this is not an actual word, right?
Grahame Grieve (Mar 26 2018 at 06:12):
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe - this is the rules we follow
Michael van der Zel (Mar 26 2018 at 06:58):
A got it. Thanks. But still "useContext" is a attribute name, so that should not have an 's' at the end, right?
Grahame Grieve (Mar 26 2018 at 09:22):
there is a way to pluralise an attribute name: <code>name<code>s - but I don't know how good an idea that is
Grahame Grieve (Mar 26 2018 at 09:22):
it's not really a settled thing to my knowledge
Wes Rishel (Mar 28 2018 at 23:02):
Grahame, is the Oxford dictionaries the go-to resource for all matters of style and punctuation or just specifically for apostrophes?
Grahame Grieve (Mar 28 2018 at 23:02):
generally, yes, though we follow US spelling and grammar rules
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