Comments on: Table of Content vs Table of Contents

By: Kate Y.

Kate Y. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:17:53 +0000

My house may only be one place, but it's still "the premises", not "the premise". "Content" as a mass noun is a very recent phenomenon.

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By: udayaprakash

udayaprakash — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:12:53 +0000

There are many contents. So it should be “Table of Contents”. Always it should be in plural form.
See here also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_contents

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By: Paul Rodriguez

Paul Rodriguez — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:56:02 +0000

The sense of "content" used in "online content" or "content producers" is not enumerable. But the phrase "table of contents" uses it in the older sense of "things contained", as in "the contents of his pockets," equivalent to "the things contained in his pockets." "Table of contents" = "table of things contained in this book."

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