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  2. There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar ... - AOL

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    The Associated Press Stylebook says “use only an apostrophe” for singular proper names ending in S: Dickens’ novels, Hercules’ labors, Jesus’ life. But not everyone agrees.

  3. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the apostrophe is used for plurals where the singulars end with long vowels, e.g. foto's, taxi's; and for the genitive of proper names ending with these vowels, e.g. Anna's, Otto's. These are in fact elided vowels; use of the apostrophe prevents spellings like fotoos and Annaas .

  4. Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe - AOL

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    An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are examples of how and when to use an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. The post Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe appeared first on ...

  5. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...

  6. Christmas Card Etiquette To Keep in Mind This Year - AOL

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    Apostrophes. An apostrophe makes something possessive, not plural. ... If your last name ends in s, x, z, ch, or sh, then add -"es" to make it plural: The Higginses, The Perezes, The Walshes. If ...

  7. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    no one's: no one has / no one is nothing's: nothing has / nothing is o’clock: of the clock o’er: over ol’ old ought’ve: ought have oughtn’t: ought not oughtn’t’ve: ought not have ’round: around ’s: is, has, does, was shalln’t: shall not (archaic) shan’ shall not shan’t: shall not she’d: she had / she would she’ll ...

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Archive (punctuation)

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    When the possessive is part of an organization's name and they choose to only use an apostrophe: St Thomas' Hospital; For plural nouns that do not end in s, add an apostrophe-s, for example, children's, not childrens'. Kaldari 20:33, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC) Nearly there, methinks. Three points: 1.

  9. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 14

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    The difference with women's is that "women", although plural, does not end in an s. The apostrophe for plural possessives applies only when the plural ends in s. --Trovatore 03:04, 14 January 2018 (UTC) (edit conflict)Girl is better used to refer to females who are not yet adults. If they are adults, women should be used.