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To: Jamestown1630
A singular noun is made possessive by an apostrophe and an “s.”

A plural noun is made possessive by an apostrophe.

You are confusing the final “s” in “Christmas” as a pluralizing “s” rather than its being part of the noun.

The correct way to pluralize a singular noun ending in “s” is to add an apostrophe and an “s.”

I call this “Jesus’s Rule.”

13 posted on 12/23/2024 12:25:39 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: HIDEK6

No, I’m not.

Maybe it’s my age, and style has changed, but I was taught in school to do it as I posted. (It stuck, perhaps, because my own name ends in ‘s’.)

https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whats-the-rule-for-doing-a-possessive-after-the-word-s/

https://grammarist.com/punctuation/apostrophes-with-names-ending-in-s/

(I’ve never heard prayer ended in church with ‘In Jesus-es name’.)


16 posted on 12/23/2024 12:32:34 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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