On 9/21/20 2:46 PM, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:01, Tony Mechelynck > <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of >> Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the >> "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written >> «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'». (I'm using French quotes to >> emphasize the difference with the apostrophe). > > I am not a native speaker of English, but I think it is correct (and > obvious) that the Saxon genitive of Arkansas is Arkansas's and not > Arkansas'. The latter is only reserved for plural nouns ("my friends' > party", "my parents' house," but "James's car", Charles's book). > > Or maybe I've missed the point. >
You missed the point when you spent more than a second thinking about it. They missed the point when they wasted time and money to enacted a statute todo the same thing. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/37fe18ec-cfce-6233-8854-887c1abc82c8%40my.liu.edu.