Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Glenn.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:48:17PM -0500, 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.

> Currently there are ~ 46 instances of the former in the manuals, and 63 of
> the latter. I favour the former.

Me too.  Presumably you use "Morris's" too, when you get to be
possessive.

A good ground for this choice is consistency and logic - if adding "'s"
is the normal method of possessivisation, why depart from it
unnecessarily?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).