Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:53:36 +0000 | From | Chris Boot <> | Subject | Re: SubmittingPatches typo |
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Matheus Izvekov wrote: > On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong... >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> >>> >>> -Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: >>> +Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format: >> Neither. (It would have been correct in German, though.) >> Correct is - in English: >> Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format: >> > > I agree with Pavel. i think its a rule in english that when the word > ends with s, you dont repeat another s after the '
When a word ends with an 's' *because it is plural* (i.e. the s denotes plurality) then you omit the second 's'. If the word ends with 's' in singular form you do the whole whack: ..s's.
I can't quote a source for this, but it's something I've known for years.
HTH, Chris
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