Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:02:09 -0500 | Subject | Re: SubmittingPatches typo | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> |
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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:".
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