Re: [PATCH] Make Nautilus use the correct linguistic apostrophe rules for english locales
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
- To: nautilus-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Nautilus use the correct linguistic apostrophe rules for english locales
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:28:48 -0500
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 13:15 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> The attached patch is meant to fix bug 314901 [1]. This would probably
> be fixed already if any of the devlopers' name ended in 's' ;).
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314901
Actually, "Chris's Home" is correct, according to the Chicago
Manual of Style. The lone trailing apostrophe is only for
plurals ending with an s sound, and a few special cases.
--
Shaun
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