Substitution rule: emoji does not take 's' in the plural
What does this MR do?
We originally standardized on emojis
, but we're contradicting both the Microsoft and Google style guides in doing so:
- https://developers.google.com/style/word-list#letter-e
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-term-collections/e/emoticons-emoji
64 hits in the documentation. A few are in subheadings, so rather than complicate this initial MR with potential broken anchors, I'll split the fixes out into a separate MR.
Related issues
Some extra reading:
- Why @annabeldunstone asked: Draft: Added group settings for creating custom... (!124855 - closed)
- Discussion source: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C16HYA2P5/p1688744155649419 in
#docs
. - https://www.grammarly.com/blog/emojis-emoji/
- @marcel.amirault's discussion about nouns lifted from Japanese
- Related to Update user-facing bad plurals of 'emoji' in th... (!125791 - merged) for frontend fixes
- Related to Clean up bad plural of 'emoji' in docs (!125782 - merged) for the docs fixes
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Edited by Amy Qualls