On Po 20-03-06 20:53:36, Chris Boot wrote:
> 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.
Ok, if you are native speaker, I trust you. Could you send a patch to
akpm?
Pavel
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