[tei-council] "the Guidelines" vs. "these Guidelines"

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Sun Jan 27 16:49:35 EST 2013


On 27/01/13 19:44, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> I count 59 instances of "the Guidelines" and 127 of "these Guidelines".
>    Would be nice to stick to just one and document.  I think "these
> Guidelines" is clearer but could be talked into using "the Guidelines"
> or even leaving things as they are.
>

Well, there are a few subtle cases ... e.g. "The Guidelines were first 
published in ..." sounds better than "These Guidelines were first" 
presumably because we're talking about the bibliographic concept in the 
former, and the current version in the latter.



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