From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:16:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85lins2gjn.fsf@iznogoud.viz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330172227 8399 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2012 12:17:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 25 13:17:03 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 1S1GYh-0001KT-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:17:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1GYg-0007BC-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1GYd-0007B2-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:17:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1GYb-0006Op-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:16:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:37452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1GYb-0006Ol-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1GYZ-0000vt-BB; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:16:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <85lins2gjn.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (message from Wolfgang Jenkner on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:10:52 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:148778 Archived-At: 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. It's worse than that: "Emacs" is a plural form used as singular. "Emacs" originally stood for "Editing macros". -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/