On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 08:50:25PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/13/2013 05:28 PM, lee wrote: > >What if the guy was called "Waterfalls"? "Waterfalls' cat"? > Either that or, "Waterfalls's cat." Both are currently acceptable, > at least in American English. Yeah. Although there's probably no chance of confusion here, Waterfalls' has some ambiguity because an apostrophe after the "s" indicates a plural possessive. That is, it could either be a cat belonging to the guy named Waterfalls, or to the whole Waterfall family, and if you don't know which the name is, you can't tell from that fragment alone. So usually s's is the more modern recommendation, but it looks weird and wrong to many traditionalists. This is kind of off topic, I suppose. :) -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
