Talk:Apostrophe (figure of speech)
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wow, i came here to look up how to denote ownership for a word that ends in s, and discovered this interesting little gem. O wikipedia, how i love you The bellman 05:46, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
- Well, did you find it? :-) If the word is actually plural, just add an apostrophe (Aha. Maybe you did find it?), such as in "teachers' lounge"; but if the s is actually part of the word, you add 's: "Sikes's Whale Wash". --Ihope127 04:20, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
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- Confused -and I teach english!
Came here from O captain my captain - from walt whitman and dead poets - from henry david thoreau's death being today...
which came first - speech or the omissive/possessive?Crescent 08:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok I changed Claudius's to Claudius' as I was pretty sure that was right but now (after reading this talk page) am not so sure.... Actually looking over the page I have just read "If the word ends in an s but is singular, practice varies as to whether to add 's or only an apostrophe" so now im just confused... If you want to change it back, do. Rkeys
- I changed it back, but thanks for taking the time to leave a note here. If you see the article Hamlet, there are loads of occurrences of "Claudius's" and "Polonius's". But it's almost too delightful for words to be having a discussion about Apostrophe (punctuation) on the Apostrophe (figure of speech) article. Sgt Pinback 20:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
