Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030272AbWCTVDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:03:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030275AbWCTVDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:03:48 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:53517 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030272AbWCTVDr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:03:47 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sKH22YOwfAPUPBCOqzEiDoifpjAi0QyvH+UsohZehof17496ghcQVKRckpjDs0dKxhbpuecMRGVzb+r0D2u4HhfGT2G8tZf7Mi5Z9tKdbSbQvBCDJpcLTiujQYNHjStr9IeY1Bbs3I7e6gyOBAYrt+TyIApbuwCPx97ee8P6ZlA= Message-ID: <305c16960603201303w733b63d4pf0ad1396fe2c93d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:03:44 -0300 From: "Matheus Izvekov" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo Cc: "Chris Boot" , "Pavel Machek" , "kernel list" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz> <305c16960603201247p53718859ofa0e6d0355c9da1a@mail.gmail.com> <441F1650.7070906@bootc.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 25 >> 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 > here is an excerpt from that link: Genitive of origin; subjective genitive * Beethoven's music * Fred Astaire's dancing * Confucius' teaching Confucius is a name ending with s jus like Torvalds is, its not plural form of anything. - 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/