Re: SubmittingPatches typo

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > > 
>> > > -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


Jan Engelhardt
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