From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F468462.2090400@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n0y5rto2zi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 18:24 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
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 [this message]
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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