Dear friend, for singular names ending in -s, the regular genitive is usual: Davis's , Charles's . Sometimes these nouns are treated as if they were plural: Davis' , Charles' - in this case the ending -s is still pronounced even

Jame is a very peculiar name, but you can contract it with is as you have done. The pronunciation of Spanish is and Spanish's is the same, so there's no point in using the apostrophe construction. Use the contraction only when the

The s can be omitted in names where an additional s might cause difficulties in pronunciation, e.g. Nicholas' , or in classical names, e.g. Mars' . In your example, while "Paris" is a classical name, it is not used in a classical context,

At 18:00:43 on Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Alan Pemberton (Email Removed) wrote in : I am intrigued by the expression 'fair does'. I have only ever heard it pronounced 'fair dooze', which doesn't make ... presume it must have been the

According to the Gregg Reference Manual: "To form the possessive of a singular noun that ends in an s sound, be guided by the way you pronounce the word. If a new syllable is formed in the pronunciation of the possessive, add an apostrophe

2a. There are two s's in the sentence. ( The modern tendency is to add -s to pluralise a word. However, the -'s is still common. I would write s's because ss looks odd.) 2b. There are two PSs in the meeting. ( I think either PSs or

Hi, here are my comments. Youtube videos Good! That's a cool feature, embedded videos. The only problem is that you can also watch other videos in the same embedded player, not only the one the poster intended to show, because it shows (and

There are nearly 3 million google hits and 2 million yahoo hits for CON'T as the abbreviation for continue/continued. It's not a form listed in popular dictionaries. cont. contd cont'd cnt Why do you suppose it has become so

I agree that it's useless to add apostrophe-s to indicate is when the word ends in a sibilant (i.e., would take -es to form a plural). In these cases the apostrophe-s looks very strange, and nothing is gained where pronunciation is concerned.

Anonymous wrote: what's the rule in english grammar for forming the possessive of a singular noun that ends in s? When I was in high school, I was taught to add only an apostrophe and not an "s". Only later did I discover that both