Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:56:28 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: SubmittingPatches typo |
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>> > > >> > > -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. >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive
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