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To: Paleo Conservative

How about the possessive apostrophe “s” for names or words ending in the letter “s”? Who said it was proper to write “Williams’s”, as in belonging to the Williams family? The proper way is Williams’. No second “s”. To me, as someone who has a last name ending in “s”, the former will never be correct. The nuns made sure I remembered that one, and God bless them. Perhaps elementary schools should go back to diagramming sentences.


33 posted on 07/22/2011 11:02:41 AM PDT by cumbo78
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To: cumbo78

My understanding is that only Biblical names, such as Jesus and Moses, do not need an apostrophe and an “s” to show possession. Therefore, Jesus’ and Moses’ are correct, but you’d type “The Williams’s house” or “Les’s girlfriend.”


68 posted on 07/22/2011 1:25:11 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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