Title: Perhaps plural?
Last modified: November 26, 2019

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# Perhaps plural?

 *  ResolvedModerator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perhaps-plural/)
 * Hi,
    I just checked a pending translation of a string in your plugin. From the
   code (and your translation) it looks as if `"popular_items" => __("Popular preacher","
   predikan"),` actually ought to be plural (Popular Preachers). (And, yes, in en_US
   they’d probably use capital P in Preachers, just like we do in WordPress 🙂 )

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 *  Plugin Author [Filip Bengtsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/automcoding/)
 * (@automcoding)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perhaps-plural/#post-12192474)
 * Thanks, I spotted that while translating and made [this fix](https://github.com/AutomCoding/wp-predikan/commit/ee0c77cbfd380bc3bfc3e29694c859ae4959312f)
   for the next release.
 * Did I understand you correctly that the standard is [capitalization like this](https://github.com/AutomCoding/wp-predikan/commit/01be47d4c381531ccc246119082b41c1df6b8951)?
   Also, do you know where to find documentation of stylistic things like this?
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perhaps-plural/#post-12192481)
 * Well. We’ve got our style guide for Swedish at [https://wpsv.se/engagera-dig/stilguide-for-oversattningar/](https://wpsv.se/engagera-dig/stilguide-for-oversattningar/)
 * I don’t think there’s any WordPress style guide for US English though. After 
   all, nobody translates TO en_US here, only FROM. Especially in titles/headers
   they tend to capitalize all important words. And then the en_GB team teaches 
   their contributors to use “sentence case” instead.
 * So you can go both ways. But I think it’s totally OK to commit what you just 
   showed.
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perhaps-plural/#post-12192483)
 * PS! You have links to many style guides in [https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/list-of-glossaries-per-locale/](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/tools/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/list-of-glossaries-per-locale/)
 *  Plugin Author [Filip Bengtsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/automcoding/)
 * (@automcoding)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perhaps-plural/#post-12194111)
 * It seems like WordPress, US English, uses title casing for most labels and menu
   items in the admin pages, albeit not coherently. The strings for the default 
   post types ‘post’ and ‘page’, corresponding to the ones you pointed out, are 
   consistently using title case. So I’ll use that in the plugin too.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perhaps-plural/#post-12194111)
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