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- From: glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Apostrophe's - one more time
- Message-ID: <glen.725754588@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:29:48 GMT
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- Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
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- jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley) writes:
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- >jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
- >: Many people write Jones'
- >: for the singular possessive -- even if they pronounce it with two
- >: syllables! The Chicago Manual, however, recommends -- I think
- >: sensibly -- adding 's to *all* singulars except for classical names
- >: like Socrates & Jesus.
-
- >"National Review" uses the rule, better to my mind, that you write
- >another "s" only when you pronounce another "s". Jones's car, Max's
- >bike, France's burden, Arkansas's (!) governor; but Goebbels' lies,
- >Dickens' novels, King Charles' head.
-
- But why Dickens' but Jones's? I think I would pronounce 2 s's in the Dickens
- possessive, too, which would make it Dickens's.
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