From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:28:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4F467C7E.3040405@dogan.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330036210 25869 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2012 22:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:30:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 23 23:30:09 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 1S0hAv-0002C5-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:30:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0hAu-0007R8-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42179) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0hAq-0007Ph-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0hAo-0000Gz-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:60099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0hAn-0000GO-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 851F4405FC; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:29:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1330036199; bh=kVEwAdrjdt2dK5q+8toPOwa0H71UVFXJdWO610OKxp4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=lzWyovxhgZv7vv13UX+a5vBHaAxhyJyFEtJj5XA7LGbNVIfxWYSt8sXzUvjMob03n 7jYgA5z4OKq/yAUcQSyAJlzOMGWwPRpZiHpQEvtUAu3957Z6u6ctK0j7E5lrOe21be lGD6SYoh6mLENlInrIFgZvGQVq+joHHEaddeJfDs= Original-Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1F8CB36004C; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:28:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4F467C7E.3040405@dogan.se> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:50:54 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2012 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 18 X-Hashcash: 1:30:120223:emacs-devel@gnu.org::hncACZSMUERQByRJ:000000000000000000000000000000000000000002JgOs X-Hashcash: 1:30:120223:deniz@dogan.se::p0YTtZ+UmFvZv2eh:009y4ag X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 207.210.242.212 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:148756 Archived-At: >>>>> "DD" == Deniz Dogan writes: >> This is one of Emacs's most important features. >> >> or >> >> This is one of Emacs' most important features. DD> What does grammar say? Is it a corner-case? Does it differ DD> depending on locale? In en_US Standard Written English the latter is preferred. I've heard tell that en_UK disagrees, but that is only hearsay. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6