Seeking Grammar Police Ruling - Typo's / that possessive 's

[potioncat]

> 
> Geoff:
> Standard UK practice is to add just an apostrophe to a proper noun, 
so 
> we would have Sirius' coat or James' wand... In Mike's example 
above 
> using "Dents' car", the context should reveal about whom you are 
> speaking. It's a bit like using "sheep" or other words in which the 
plural 
> is the same; the context and grammar make it clear which one you 
are 
> using. Similar thing happens a fair bit in German as well.


Potioncat:
argh! I should never spout off advice without checking it first. So I 
checked it afterwards. My dictionary with an incredibly long name, 
copywrited 1966 says there's a growing trend to add an 's to names 
that end in s.

Funny, for many years I'd followed the same rule as Geoff and 
recently (more recently than 1966) switched to 's. Hhmph, I'm old 
enough to like the old ways, so I'm dropping the s! Besides, it'll 
make texting easier.

And Mike, you knew what you were talking about with pronunciation. 
Whether you would add 's to a proper noun that ends in s does depend 
on pronunciation. 

Pronunciation! That's another big issue at this site.