Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:01, Tony Mechelynck
<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of
> Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the
> "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written
> «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'». (I'm using French quotes to
> emphasize the difference with the apostrophe).

I am not a native speaker of English, but I think it is correct (and
obvious) that the Saxon genitive of Arkansas is Arkansas's and not
Arkansas'. The latter is only reserved for plural nouns ("my friends'
party", "my parents' house," but "James's car", Charles's book).

Or maybe I've missed the point.

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Ottavio Caruso

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