[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report (Seriously OT now!)

[Simon Stewart]

On Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002, at 08:38 Europe/London, John Winters wrote:
>
> "To show possession, put an apostrophe S on all words, singular or
> plural, except where there is a plural S in which case put the
> apostrophe after the S.  There are five exceptions - ours, yours, hers,
> its, theirs."
>
> One of many things we had to learn off by heart.

Was I the only one that was taught that if the word ends in an S, then 
the singular possessive (I think it is :) can omit a trailing "s" and 
just make do with an apostrophe? That is, "Chris' stereo" can actually 
mean "the stereo belonging to Chris"

Cheers,

Simon


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