DCML Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12
Leo Schulte
schulte at teacher.com
Tue Mar 14 13:40:20 CET 2006
Greetings!
I wrote earlier:
I also ascribe to the "s-apostrophe" rather than the "s-apostrophe-s"
rule, which seems illogical, and is, because Americans at least will
ad an extra "s" as in Barkses stories when they pronounce the
possessive of Barks. Still, I have never liked the way it looks!
And so, even though the sound is there, I will not write an extra
gentive "s" for a word ending in -s.
Illogical, but that's English!
Mr. Markstein wrote:
No it isn't. Not correct English, anyway. Tell me, do you also "ascribe"
(look it up) to the practice of using an apostrophe to form plurals?
That, too, is a popular but grossly incorrect way of dealing with English
nouns.
Ascribe has been looked up.
If you re-read what I wrote, I agree with you! I just do not like the
way it looks!
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