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Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" |
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Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:16:55 -0500 |
Actually, [1] states that the latter form can be used only with
/regular/ nouns ending in "s", but many people use the plural form
"Emacsen", so, in current usage, "Emacs" is not a regular noun.
It's worse than that: "Emacs" is a plural form used as singular.
"Emacs" originally stood for "Editing macros".
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- Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", (continued)
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Jambunathan K, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Jambunathan K, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Paul Eggert, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Alan Mackenzie, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/23
Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s", Wolfgang Jenkner, 2012/02/24
- Re: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s",
Richard Stallman <=