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> Avoid: Plurals—use the more natural collective term where possible instead. For example "staff" instead of "employees" or "people" instead of "individuals".
by pwaivers 8y ago
> Avoid: Plurals—use the more natural collective term where possible instead. For example "staff" instead of "employees" or "people" instead of "individuals".
What if a word doesn't have a collective term, or the term isn't very good? For example, what would you do for "computers"?
Additionally, does this mean that "employee" is better than "employees"?
- cissou 8y ago"hardware"
- Bjartr 8y agoBoxen
- paulddraper 8y agoI always use singular. But I don't really know if there is a convention. ANSI information_schema uses plurals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_schema