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Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:34 -0800 |
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On 02/23/2012 09:48 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Currently there are ~ 46 instances of the former in the manuals, and 63 of
> the latter. I favour the former.
These days "Emacs's" is preferred by more stylebooks (OUP, MLA, BBC, Economist)
than "Emacs'" (AP, Chicago). The shorter form is still more common for
classical
and biblical names ("Socrates'", "Jesus'"), but I don't think anybody would
claim that "Emacs" has been around *that* long. So let's use "Emacs's".
For more, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.22s.22_or_.22z.22_sound
- Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", (continued)
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Jambunathan K, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Jambunathan K, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s",
Paul Eggert <=
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Alan Mackenzie, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/02/24