To: MindBender26
Change "Larry Parks' day" to "Larry Parks's day".
The first rule in Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" is "Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's."
33 posted on
01/08/2002 6:41:42 AM PST by
Sid Rich
To: Sid Rich
Several Strunk fans struck at once.
36 posted on
01/08/2002 6:43:28 AM PST by
Sid Rich
To: Sid Rich
You're right. I think there's (a contraction, not a possessive), more on the subject in Fowler.
37 posted on
01/08/2002 6:43:38 AM PST by
Gumlegs
To: Sid Rich
Yep, that's what Strunk says all right, and I do it, but editors almost invariably change it in the case of last names that end in "s." This dates from -- believe it or not -- a Time magazine style decision in the 1950s, which also eliminated the comma before "and" in a series. Reason? It saved printer's ink. Hundreds of thousands of dollars's worth per year.
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