Re: SubmittingPatches typo

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>>> > > -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.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive
>

Anyway, I have a more authoritative source[1], which says

	Singular
		Kate's book
		Father's pipe
		Charles's records
		Alice's cassettes
	Plural
		my parents' books
		the boys' room
		the children's toys
		men's clothes

	<Warning sign>
		My friend's bike is new.
		My friends' bikes are over there.

	<Translated> With singular, an apostrophe and an s is added
	to the noun. As for plural forms with a trailing -s, only an 
	apostrophe is added. Other plural forms get an apostrophe and an s 
	(like with singular).

	Family names ending in -s may either have apostrophe + S or just
	an apostrophe appended.

		Mrs Jones's/Jones' hats
		The Bates's/Bates' house

So in our Torvalds case, we have the option.


[1] Ungerer/Pasch/Lampater/Hellyer-Jones
    "Learning English, Grundgrammatik"  isbn 3-12-511510-8
    distributed by Klett


Jan Engelhardt
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