Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2006 01:13 schrieb Gregory Pittman: > Maciej Hanski wrote: > > Craig Bradney wrote: > >> On Sunday 21 May 2006 00:06, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >>> Maciej Hanski wrote: > >>>>> Scribus's Friends > >>>> > >>>> Scribus's? Are you absolutely sure about it? > >>> > >>> According to Strunk & White, the bible of style at least on this side > >>> of the Atlantic, Scribus's would be correct. > >> > >> Sounds like a booboo to me.. if theres an s on the end you don't add it > >> IIRC. > > > > Sounds like Greg were right for this side of the Atlantic, too: > > > > <quoting> > > We add an apostrophe and "s" after all singular nouns and after plural > > nouns that do not end in "s"... > > </quoting> > > > > http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/apostrophes01.html > > > > http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/genitiv.htm > > The very first "rule" in Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" shows > two correct examples: "Charles's friend", "Burns's poems". > > Greg
But this is ugly, isn't it? In German, we simply omit the second s and only use the apostrophe in this case. But in German apostrophe + s isn't used for the genitive anyway, at least it wasn't until the so called spelling reform, which made the "fool's apostrophe" (as it is generally called) a part of "correct" German. Christoph
