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I guess you don't get out much, Anon. Here is a sampling of respectable online sources. Doing a bit of Google research yourself will turn up many, many more.The American Heritage Dictionary: Grammarians have sometimes objected to the so-called double genitive construction, as in a friend of my...

There are all sorts of rules, but they don't work 100% of the time. The examples you mentioned (photography, apostrophe) are examples of four-syllable words derived from Greek ending in the EE sound (spelled 'y', but sometimes 'e'). These take the main stress on the second of four...