on 2014-07-01 10:21 Darren Addy wrote
According to:
http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/grammar/Apostro3.html
"Your question on the possessive, on the other hand, is open to
editorial judgment.[...]"
i happen to have _The _best_ punctuation book, period._ checked out from the
library; i like its approach, which is to give context for alternatives; on
proper names ending in s, it states that Adams’s is correct for books, science
and academic writing, but that Adams’ is correct for news media and business
writing; for all but academic styles it relies on multiple sources; it has no
category for informal writing, though it ought to correlate to news; worth
noting that AppleScript uses book style
my magazine production background, perhaps, explains my preference for Adams’,
but i can adapt:
Ramses’s Siamese’s disease causes sneezes
Adams’s cameras’s lenses’s apertures’s measurements’s decimal precisions
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