From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jenkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:10:52 +0100 Message-ID: <85lins2gjn.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330110666 31608 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2012 19:11:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 24 20:11:05 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 1S10Xp-0002OP-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:11:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S10Xo-0006ce-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S10Xi-0006cK-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S10Xh-0007lC-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx02.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.2]:16215 helo=mx.inode.at) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S10Xf-0007kY-Qd; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:10:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [85.127.18.164] (port=6550 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-02.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S10Xd-0007rv-JS; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:10:53 +0100 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1S10Xc-0000lT-9R; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:10:52 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 62.99.145.2 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:148767 Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 23 2012, 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. Actually, [1] states that the latter form can be used only with /regular/ nouns ending in "s", but many people use the plural form "Emacsen", so, in current usage, "Emacs" is not a regular noun. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_genitive Wolfgang