Rename Wine User Guide to Wine User's Guide?
Huw D M Davies
h.davies1 at physics.ox.ac.uk
Thu Oct 14 17:01:41 CDT 2004
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote:
> If it [the possessing object] does [end with an s], then add just
> the apostrophe. For example: if Simons owns a ball, which is red,
> then Simons' ball is red.)
Actually this is generally regarded as archaic, at least in the UK[1]
- the form Simons's ball is usually preferred. One exception is with
the name Jesus where we would have Jesus' ball.
Huw.
[1] See Fowler's Modern English Usage.
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