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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:53:36 +0000
From: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
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To: Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
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Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo
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Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
>>>
>>> -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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