Re: SubmittingPatches typo

[Chris Boot]

Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > -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.

HTH,
Chris

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