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From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:50:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F467C7E.3040405@dogan.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n0y5rto2zi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 2012-02-23 18:48, 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.
>
> Currently there are ~ 46 instances of the former in the manuals, and 63 of
> the latter. I favour the former.
>

What does grammar say?  Is it a corner-case?  Does it differ depending 
on locale?



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-23 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-23 17:48 Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:50 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2012-02-23 22:28   ` James Cloos
2012-02-24  5:10   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-23 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-23 18:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 18:15   ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-23 20:51     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-23 21:47       ` chad
2012-02-24  5:15       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-24 11:57         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-02-23 18:07 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-23 18:23 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-23 18:36   ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 18:24 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-23 18:32   ` Jay Belanger
2012-02-23 18:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-02-23 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-24 19:10 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-02-25 12:16   ` Richard Stallman
2012-03-01  8:46 ` Miles Bader

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