I'm on a tight deadline and my brain is fried, so I'm turning to AskMe for help on a grammar question I should probably be able to work out with googling and
Chicago, but for some reason can't:
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posted by prior
on Mar 8, 2012 -
12 answers
OK language mavens, help me understand this one. In
this book review in today's NYT, we find the line "Mr. Kennedy is, deep down, an admirer of the president’s." Is the final 'apostrophe ess' a 'correct' construction?
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posted by woodblock100
on Aug 13, 2011 -
46 answers
Where should the apostrophe go in the sentence "In Memory of Great Loves Lost"? Loves is plural (referring to all the loving in the world), but does it possess "lost"? Should it be loves'?
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posted by niccolo
on Nov 22, 2009 -
14 answers
Punctuation question. Gentle reader - what connotation do you get from seeing
Jesus' or
Jesus's OR
Niklas' or
Niklas's? (Possessives with or without the 's' for nouns ending in 's'.)
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posted by typewriter
on Jan 23, 2009 -
43 answers
I'm trying to add a username in Wordpress that has an apostrophe in it (like Jerry O'Connell). It's telling me this is not allowed. Can I work around this?
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posted by kerning
on Aug 19, 2008 -
9 answers
Anyone know the reason why in some sources de Medici (as in Catherine, Marie, Lorenzo) takes an apostrophe like so:
de' Medici.
Wikipedia uses this form, for example. Newspapers don't seem to bother with the apostrophe.
posted by otio
on Oct 5, 2007 -
11 answers
If you were creating text for an invitation, and the reception following the event was at a specific family’s house, but you wanted to omit the actual noun “house”, what would be the proper (or more common) way to implement the apostrophe?
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posted by naxosaxur
on Feb 23, 2005 -
21 answers
Cartoon bumblebee explaining proper apostrophe usage. Where is it?
posted by Tlogmer
on May 11, 2004 -
3 answers
