From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:45:19 +0530 Message-ID: <81aa49ju14.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330020955 2970 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2012 18:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 23 19:15:55 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 1S0dCp-0006hh-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:15:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dCo-0005pv-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dCl-0005pf-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dCe-0000pK-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:38149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dCe-0000p9-D9; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: by pbcwz17 with SMTP id wz17so1795877pbc.0 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:15:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=ie2DLdo3AAAadYKL0MZ72TI6E3/mlqwdCskZLJjJ4K0=; b=BXMVnufVRuOr7xcehcR0T5vak1vPzhna1qnKo/LE2CwwrbT94ZSQ4YSA78wtIXINnw 17/K7e2WlUACY8QeyZd4MmmHiw6Od4iNq86ZPLMEIbAv6iiBc8j74G0lOzxS848T9vzQ UbL+PdzJS0TWF62ANKEHq7gGF+pDj0qXH0Z7s= Original-Received: by 10.68.240.164 with SMTP id wb4mr5952427pbc.57.1330020939365; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:15:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.242.164.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm2043884pbr.65.2012.02.23.10.15.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:15:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:07:00 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.160.41 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:148737 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > +1 for the former case (.+s's is my preference also). > > (Dunno what the GNU standard is for this.) > > As for guidance: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.22s.22_or > _.22z.22_sound It seems the opinion is divided. If I read between the words there, the editors seem to think that the "Chicago Manual Of Style" is not one among the respected authorities. I would rather not be found hissing. --