From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:50:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4F467C7E.3040405@dogan.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330019502 23855 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2012 17:51:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:51:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 23 18:51:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cpP-0005to-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:51:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cpP-0001Ev-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cpI-0001Eg-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:51:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cpE-0004F5-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:51:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.6]:48641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cpD-0004Ey-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:51:28 -0500 Original-Received: from c80-216-107-103.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.107.103]:63156 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S0coo-0002Zo-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:51:08 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 80.216.107.103 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1S0coo-0002Zo-Ih. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net 1S0coo-0002Zo-Ih f9ba0dfc6ab4512034637e94b551e861 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148733 Archived-At: 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?