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Hello from a non-skeptic

Blue Bubble said:
I would contend that it's not.
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Under what circumstances would you contend that?

In case it isn't clear, I am attempting to be slightly humorous and am taking no stance regarding the relative correctness or incorrectness of the two punctuations/spellings. In fact, since we have brought up relativity I think it fair to say that for me in my quantized state, the Uncertainty Principle comes strongly into play.
 
Garrette said:
Under what circumstances would you contend that?
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Under all circumstances.

In case it isn't clear, I am attempting to be slightly humorous and am taking no stance regarding the relative correctness or incorrectness of the two punctuations/spellings. In fact, since we have brought up relativity I think it fair to say that for me in my quantized state, the Uncertainty Principle comes strongly into play.
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:D
 
add 's to the singular form of the word (even if it ends in -s):
the owner's car
James's hat (James' hat is also acceptable. For plural, proper nouns that are possessive, use an apostrophe after the 's': "The Eggles' presentation was good." The Eggles are a husband and wife consultant team.)​
add 's to the plural forms that do not end in -s:
the children's game
the geese's honking​
add ' to the end of plural nouns that end in -s:
two cats' toys
three friends' letters​
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/
 
How about:

Boden's ______________*

*Choose from the below:

book

Synonyms: album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing
 
Emet said:
How about:

Boden's ______________*

*Choose from the below:

book

Synonyms: album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing
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Leave out the possessive altogether. Just call it "The Stewart Code."
 
Emet said:
How about:

Boden's ______________*

*Choose from the below:

book

Synonyms: album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing
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Done!
 
Emet said:
How about:

Boden's ______________*

*Choose from the below:

book

Synonyms: album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing
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Got me...
 
Wolrab said:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/
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I use Punctuation, Capitalization, and Spelling from the Schaum's Outline Series, and they state "If addition of an s after an apostrophe is undesirable bcecause of sound or appearance, add only an apostrohe." This is supported in other writing guides as well.

Since I've been doing it that way for decades, I'll continue. If I ever change, you'll know the pods finally got me.
 
patchbunny said:
I use Punctuation, Capitalization, and Spelling from the Schaum's Outline Series, and they state "If addition of an s after an apostrophe is undesirable bcecause of sound or appearance, add only an apostrohe." This is supported in other writing guides as well.

Since I've been doing it that way for decades, I'll continue. If I ever change, you'll know the pods finally got me.
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Thou wouldst claim a language inabsolute? Convention not static? Where leads the madness that would a mark make subjective in its use? Down no road I tread for it is in the trust of a thousand authors that one scribe finds confusion. A moss's rock rolls less far from truth than Charles' tome.
 
OH, page 32 of this thread, I love you even more than page 7 of this thread... I didn't think it was possible, but it is true.

Isn't Garrette, I don't know, King or something? If so, doesn't he get to decide what to do with an apostrophes's use?

And I will henceforth call it THE BODEN CODEX, because that sounds even more mysterious and important and also requires no difficult apostrophe decision.
 
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Wolrab said:
Skimming through the link, it seems the author must have, in a previous life, been molested by strawmen. In this life, he takes great pleasure in knocking them down.
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(BTW: Page 7, thank you for this, but you needed much more to defeat page 32.)
 
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