From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:32:06 -0600 Message-ID: <878vjtjt95.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4F468462.2090400@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330021944 10779 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2012 18:32:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 23 19:32:23 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 1S0dSo-00025l-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:32:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42698 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dSn-0008PI-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dSf-0008Oq-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dSZ-0004FS-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.truman.edu ([150.243.162.204]:50755 helo=uranium.truman.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0dSZ-0004F5-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:32:07 -0500 Original-Received: from belanger-office (vh213601.truman.edu [150.243.162.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uranium.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C88E1282D3; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:32:05 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <4F468462.2090400@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:34 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 150.243.162.204 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:148741 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > On 02/23/2012 09:48 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: >> Currently there are ~ 46 instances of the former in the manuals, and 63 of >> the latter. I favour the former. > > These days "Emacs's" is preferred by more stylebooks (OUP, MLA, BBC, Economist) > than "Emacs'" (AP, Chicago). According to the wikipedia article, the 16th Edition of Chicago now recommends "Emacs's" (or rather, no longer recommends "Emacs'").