Re: SubmittingPatches typo

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Matheus Izvekov wrote:
On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!

I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>

-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 '

When a word ends with an 's' *because it is plural* (i.e. the s denotes plurality) then you omit the second 's'. If the word ends with 's' in singular form you do the whole whack: ..s's.

I can't quote a source for this, but it's something I've known for years.

HTH,
Chris

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