At 07:49 PM 6/12/97 -0500, Josh Green wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, LeVar Bouyer wrote:

    Suddenly, the four Scouts didn't look so tired anymore, much to Artemis'

MIKE: Um, you want a trailing s after the apostrophe to signify
possession, unless you've got more than one Artemis.

To be fair, this is up to the writer.  If you wanted a person reading the
work to pronounce the possessive suffix as a seperate syllable, then you
should use the 'full' suffix of -'s.  But for names ending in 's', just
adding an apostrophe to the end is equally correct.

To be specific, according to my grammar guide's section on the possessive
case of nouns:

The possessive case of nouns is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s to
words which do not end with an s or a z sound: the boy's room, the
children's school; and by adding only the apostrophe to words which do end
with an s or a z sound: the boys' room, Dickens' novel.  If, however, the
word ending in s or z is a proper noun with only one syllable, an apostrope
and an s are added to the word: Keats's sonnets, Santa Claus's reindeer.

NOTE: Some classical names and other names that would be awkward to
pronounce with an added apostrophe and s use only the apostrophe: Xerxes'
chariot, Moses' tablets



So, that's all as clear as mud, isn't it? ^_^  (and why I write Priss's
instead of Priss')



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