From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:10:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nugn7dz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F467C7E.3040405@dogan.se>
Deniz Dogan writes:
> What does grammar say? Is it a corner-case? Does it differ depending
> on locale?
Early-to-mid 1900s grammar says without any self-critical doubt
whatsoever that for a singular noun ending in "s" the possessive is
formed by adding "'s".
Before and after grammar says either is OK, with after grammar having
a footnote saying that early-to-mid-1900s grammarians were fascist
usurpers of the people's right to determine their own language, as
evidenced by the usage of before grammar. Before grammar has no
footnotes referring to after grammar, though.
With-tongue-firmly-in-cheeks's-ly y'rs,
P.S. Personally I favor "Emacs's".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-24 5:10 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 [this message]
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
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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