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Re: [OM] Gus-Gus's World - APOSTROPHE ALERT!!

Subject: Re: [OM] Gus-Gus's World - APOSTROPHE ALERT!!
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:55:14 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     Which reminds me:  I've been working religiously on a 1968/69 Mercier 300 
bicycle that I bought on evilBay for less than what a comparable frameset would 
normally cost.  I've been thinking of it as a Catholic bike, due to the phrase 
"Christ have Mercier" in the English mass.  :{b

>
>Last time I looked it up (don't know where) it made an exception for
>religious names, so it would be Chris's Fuji but Jesus' Olympus.
>
>Jez's contribution
>
>On 21 February 2016 at 14:07, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I should revise that slightly, Chris: it’s common with a plural (that ends
>> with ’s’) to omit the final ’s’.  But it’s quite reasonable to write
>> something like ‘Chris’s camera’ or ‘Jesus’s cloak’ (although the Bible
>> translation that I read omits that final ’s’).
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> > On 21 Feb 2016, at 13:18, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >     In the possessive form of a word ending with an 's', the common
>> usage is to not have an 's' after the apostrophe.
>> >
>> >     Grammar Police - To Serve and Correct.
>> >
>> >     BTW:  Nice reference to "Christina's World".
>>
>

Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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