From 2019: marynorrisTNY weighs in on the grammar-Twitter frenzy over the ways to make words ending in “S” possessive.
a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an apostrophe: the churches’ needs, the girls’ toys, the horses’ food, the ships’ wake, states’ rights, the VIPs’ entrance.” Then it dropped a bombshell: “We are considering changing to use ’s when making a name that ends in S possessive: Mavis Staples’s album, Martha Reeves’s concert.
People who feel strongly about not adding the “S” are probably the same ones who delete the serial comma, at least to judge from their reasons. It takes up space. The extra “S” is “redundant and unnecessary” . They argued that without the “S” the word is more concise, it’s cleaner. “Please leave the beautiful s’ as is. The entire point of the apostrophe is to SHORTEN/EASE the word” . “I would rather be trampled by 30–50 feral hogs than be forced to write Mavis Staples’s” .
Many people have devised their own phonetic distinctions for adding or withholding the “S.” “When the sibilant is voiced use just an apostrophe. When the sibilant is unvoiced use the apostrophe and another S. This avoids the awkward sounding double z at the end of words” . Other phonetic schemes may sound slightly bogus—“The rule is that with names already having two sibilants, like Jesus, Texas, or Moses, one wouldn’t use ’s but just ’ ” —yet turn out to be in line with the.
If you have ever tried to write about the apostrophe and started out with how simple it is to form the possessive of singular and plural nouns and then thought of a few exceptions , and then a few more exceptions , and then got confused and realized it wasn’t so simple after all , you know despair. Strunk and White kept it simple: form the possessive of singular nouns by adding an apostrophe plus “S.
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