From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:34 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4F468462.2090400@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330021489 7378 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2012 18:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 23 19:24:48 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 1S0dLR-000515-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:24:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dLR-0007B4-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58603) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dLO-0007Az-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dLI-0002m5-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:58949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dLI-0002m0-OE; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3E8A60003; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:35 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6naRC89jQMcA; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6AD2A60002; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:34 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120131 Thunderbird/10.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:148739 Archived-At: 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