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user guide vs. user's guide #1 (permalink) Thu Jun 05, 2008 18:59 pm   user guide vs. user's guide		  
Hi, is there a difference between "a user's guide to the program" and "a user guide to the program"?

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user guide vs. user's guide #2 (permalink) Thu Jun 05, 2008 19:52 pm   user guide vs. user's guide		  
There's no difference, and neither one is wrong.
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user guide vs. user's guide #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 05, 2008 22:24 pm   user guide vs. user's guide		  
I agree.

Interesting though:

1,960,000 English pages for "user's guide"
662,000 English pages for "user guide"

"User guide" sounds more formal to me. Sounds more "professional", technical.
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user guide vs. user's guide #4 (permalink) Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:28 am   user guide vs. user's guide		  
Why not "users' guide"? Smile
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user guide vs. user's guide #5 (permalink) Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:48 am   user guide vs. user's guide		  
Molly wrote:
I agree.

Interesting though:

1,960,000 English pages for "user's guide"
662,000 English pages for "user guide"

"User guide" sounds more formal to me. Sounds more "professional", technical.

"User guide" sounds clumsier to me, and less formal. When I see a user's guide, I expect it to be well-written. When I see a user guide, I expect to see typos and clunky syntax.
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user guide vs. user's guide #6 (permalink) Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:49 am   user guide vs. user's guide		  
Haihao wrote:
Why not "users' guide"? Smile

Because generally only one user has the guide in his hand at one time.

However, there would be nothing grammatically wrong about users' guide, and I don't doubt that it's used in some situations.
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user guide vs. user's guide #7 (permalink) Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:08 am   user guide vs. user's guide		  
Jamie (K) wrote:
Because generally only one user has the guide in his hand at one time.

This is a crystalclear explanation to me.
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