Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Thu, Feb 23 2012, Glenn Morris wrote:

> A critical question. What is the standard form in GNU manuals for using
> the possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"?
>
>   This is one of Emacs's most important features.
>
> or
>
>   This is one of Emacs' most important features.

Actually, [1] states that the latter form can be used only with
/regular/ nouns ending in "s", but many people use the plural form
"Emacsen", so, in current usage, "Emacs" is not a regular noun.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_genitive

Wolfgang