Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030276AbWCTU4h (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:56:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030277AbWCTU4g (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:56:36 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:34217 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030276AbWCTU4f (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:56:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:56:28 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Chris Boot cc: Matheus Izvekov , Pavel Machek , kernel list Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo In-Reply-To: <441F1650.7070906@bootc.net> Message-ID: References: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz> <305c16960603201247p53718859ofa0e6d0355c9da1a@mail.gmail.com> <441F1650.7070906@bootc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 27 >> > > >> > > -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. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/