From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:10:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85lins2gjn.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n0y5rto2zi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:17 -0500")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-24 19:10 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
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 [this message]
2012-02-25 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2012-03-01 8:46 ` Miles Bader
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