'Hell Bound'
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As for Charles' vs. Charles's, I know Strunk & White say it's the latter, but I should probably actually crack open that AP style manual I bought a few weeks ago and see what the current usage is.
I believe s's is British. But I'm not sure. It's certainly not common where I see it.
Now, I've been told that s' is proper and British, and s's is American and therefore wrong. Certainly in Bridget Jones' Diary they use s'.
I've always been taught that s's is correct except for Moses' and Jesus'. (I just checked the Little, Brown Handbook, which agrees with that and also adds that if the same is a plural already, like Rivers, then it just becomes Rivers'.)
I've always been taught that s's is correct except for Moses' and Jesus'. (I just checked the Little, Brown Handbook, which agrees with that and also adds that if the same is a plural already, like Rivers, then it just becomes Rivers'.)
How very, very strange. Why was I taught that? It *was* a Catholic school, and "Jesus" *was* one of the examples.... Why do Jesus and Moses have honorary plurality, just because they're shiny?
Certainly in Bridget Jones' Diary they use s'.
Nuh-uh. At least in the version here in the US, it's "Jones's"
Why do Jesus and Moses have honorary plurality, just because they're shiny?
Try saying Moses's or Jesus's. Your tongue gets stuck in a sort of Moseseseseses thing. It's because of the double s already at the end.
IIRC, AP style for single possessive proper nouns ending with s is 's.
I know it annoys me, and that it's something that's shifted since I started writing, because I know damned well that all my things had ---s' written on them. (I think a shift in rule that affects your name is more annoying than any other.)
People at work use s' -- our ED's name ends with s -- and it irks me, because then it looks like his name is plural, if you know what I mean.
Okay, so, it's not just an obscure religious act of honor. So any other English word with the same s-situation would have the same deal?
This is so fucking weird. I've never noticed I was off. Think of all the papers and stories I've written with the wrong things in! I want to march back to the nuns that taught me and complain.
Technically, my name is plural, so I still s' any labels I may make.