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SubjectRe: SubmittingPatches typo
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:47:44PM -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> > >
> > >-Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format:
> > >+Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format:
> >
> > Neither. (It would have been correct in German, though.)
> > Correct is - in English:
> > Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:
> >
>
> I agree with Pavel. i think its a rule in english that when the word
> ends with s, you dont repeat another s after the '

Nope. It's actually one of the amusing places where there *is* no rule.
Plurals that end in s always get just the apostrophe. But for singular
nouns that end in s, while I tend to think of "'s" as the default, some
people like to drop the final s if the result ("Sophocles's") would
otherwise sound awkward spoken aloud.

If you really can't stand the ambiguity, go for "Mail from Linus
Torvalds on the canonical patch format:".

--b.
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