So, this is my inner grammar cop coming out.

With the shift from "Modules" to "Extend", we have broken the language pattern of our top level admin menu. To wit:

  • Content -> noun
  • Structure -> noun
  • Appearance -> noun
  • People -> noun
  • Extend -> verb
  • Configuration -> noun
  • Reports -> noun
  • Help -verb or noun, but "[you] help" is nonsensical, so its a noun

Since all the other top-level items are nouns, "Extend" must be made a noune, Extensions, otherwise, we fail the basic concept of parallelism.

IMO this is not bikeshedable. In English grammar, it's simply proper.

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One line patch changes to Extensions.

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No. We already covered this in the parent thread.

Other desktop applications also mix noun and verb; if anything we can change "Configuration" to "Configure"

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Other desktop applications also mix noun and verb; if anything we can change "Configuration" to "Configure"

Yes, please.

/me prepares to die during a grammar sword fight with agentrickard at dawn.

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FYI: parent thread is #1164760: [meta] New users universally did NOT understand that you can extend Drupal

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Note that renaming "Configuration" to "Configure" is here: #1839032: Rename the "Configuration" menu item to "Configure". Relatively simple issue, but approaching its one-year anniversary...